Mark Shane Hayden@requiem @ink_slinger self hosting email is not as painful as you'd think--the biggest issues are during initial setup (especially DNS). Once it is running maintenance is pretty manageable...I'd say mastodon is significantly more work to maintain than email to be honest :blobcheeky:
But...it's all relative. If you haven't hosted any sort of server before email is an intimidating first project.
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