Self-hosting is an acceptable temporary solution to a lack of privacy regulations but not a sustainable long-term one.
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I can and do self host, but I’m not willing to provide these services for free. I don’t want to be responsible for other peoples passwords or family photos.

Thats where good, privacy-respecting services come into play. Instead of hosting for my neighbours, I would recommend mailbox.org, bitwarden, ente or a hosted nextcloud.

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Note that you don’t know what the hosters know, store and/or sell about you.

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There is no way to be 100% sure, but:

  • bitwarden and ente have open source clients that ecrypt all data locally in a way that the provider can’t restore data
  • nextcloud isn’t optimal, while you can encypt data at rest, the provider might be able to spy on you
  • With mail providers it is difficult, but mailbox.org has my (personal) trust by building their business model on data protection and open source
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That’s okay, too.

For me, I only let people I know use them (friends and family) with the exception of my Lemmy instance, of course (and even that’s not wide open to the world).

I’d be running these for myself whether anyone else used them or not. Unless I’m hosting for hundreds of people, the cost to run these services is the same as it is just for myself. Granted, I don’t have people gaming the system trying to backup their entire PCs to their email inbox or Nextcloud, but that’s where the trust factor (and storage quotas) comes in.

As far as being responsible for all that goes, again, the small audience of people I know personally lets me explain that it’s all “best effort”. That said, I do take my own backups and high availability seriously and they benefit from that.

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