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This is clearly not what i'm saying.
Residential Hosting is technically possible - everything works as intended, it's just that a tiny bit of extra logic on the recievers side rejects the delivery.
That's very different from...? Demanding the air? Hosts it?
I just think the requirement is red tape, and i have no idea why yall are so ready to accept, that you shouldn't own the machienes you run your code on, if you're not a company.
Suree, i am a bit oblivious, it may be that it's as "easy" as calling your isp.
It's just that my isp never picks up, and sends the pinkertons after me to get me to stop calling.
Suree in the grand sheme of things getting a non-residential ip shouldn't be too hard
But i still think it's one of those pieces of red tape that have killed a lot of diversity
This is absolutely a reason to close your home server -i mean if you're buying an VPS anyway that uses the same bandwidth it would use with the server set up there
Why keep a server in your garage?
And then you're not truely independent anymore, because of a small policy somewhere
I DO think garage hosting is an important part of an ecosystems freedom.
I can garage host fedi, and i AM in this very moment.
For web services it's just DOS Protection that we need Men in the Middle for.
Which is sad but, actually not an artificial requirement.
A VPS is basically just a complicated way of making an account with a large infrastructure provider
imo
if i can't have a raspberry pi, that costs only electricity, and have it host an email server
the protocol is not open!
at least it is more closed than i'd like - it's open enough for companies, granted
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then clearly, i CANNOT run an email server?
without buying my way into a higher status of ip address?
i can host fedi from residential ip's, and that's a huge part why it's possible for us to talk right now
(of course, i need cloudflares help for this, since i have no ipv4 address - but other than that)
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