Comment on Decentralization Scoring System (v1.3)
dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 4 weeks ago
Having set up a couple of mail servers myself, I wouldn’t call it easy. Most solutions boil down to a tangled web of dovecot, postfix, ldap and amavis. There are preconfigured docker containers which make setup easier than a couple of years ago but if your use case is even just slightly different than the maintainers’, you’ll have to dive deep into a few dozen different config files. And of course, you’ll have to find out how to configure SPF, DKIM and DMARC to have even a remote chance of your mails getting through to the big providers. I’d probably give email somewhere in the range of 8-12 points in that category.
Other than that, great summary!
The scoring system is basically there to put a number on “How free are users and hosts of a platform to move around?” Or “How much power is in the hands of the people and not a few companies?”
For me Email scores very high in this regard.
As far as I know most Lemmy instances leverages paid-for or freemium services to have their instances work easily/properly
Then please update your category name to reflect that. Right now it says “Self-Hosting” which to the majority of readers means hosting it yourself.
As far as I know most Lemmy instances leverages paid-for or freemium services to have their instances work easily/properly
Yes but you can’t compare a whole lemmy instance to an account on an email server that you share with others. The fair comparison would be hosting a lemmy instance to hosting your own email server and creating an account on Proton Mail to creating an account (or a community) on lemmy.world.
You’re right, thanks for the input. I’ll make adjustments to take care of these flaws in the scoring system.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Agreed, email hosting is a pain. Also don’t get me started on just how unfriendly large email providers are to self-hosted email. Typically always false flagging it as spam and sometimes bouncing or dropping it instead of even sending to spam folder. People downplay this problem but it’s a serious problem when it comes to self-hosted or non-corporate email services.