Yeah maybe you’re right. I guess it’s just me being blinded by Optimism sorry if the idea is retarded. I just hope the we don’t have to rely on server providers or Email Providers to host our E-mails. Maybe one day when technology gets better and better.
It's not too hard to do this today, but it has some caveats. Oversimplifying a bit, the way email usually works today is:
* You send an email through Thunderbird on your laptop.
* Your laptop connects to your SMTP server and stores the message on it.
* Your SMTP server connects to the recipient's SMTP server and sends it the message.
* Thunderbird on the recipient's laptop connects to the recipient's IMAP server and downloads the message.
So if you and your buddy each run your own IMAP and SMTP server, then you can send each other email whenever both computers are on! There are a few high quality open source IMAP and SMPT servers that can easily be installed on a Linux computer, so you need to be autistic enough to install Linux on a computer, open up the necessary ports on your router/firewall/etc and secure it (TL;DR keep it up to date and don't install sketchy Minecraft mods and as long as you're a nobody you're fine), but this is totally doable for a hobbyist.
You probably don't actually need a domain name for this, something like DynDNS would work. Note that this means you are publicly associating the IP address that your computer is connected to with your email address, Is that a problem? You would also need to enable encryption on these servers or else your ISP et al would see your email contents. Can you trust that encryption? Depends on what exactly you're trying to hide and from whom, and you could always use GPG on top of this (though glowies will still know
who you are emailing). If you actually plan to do this, please do your research on the details if you plan to count on it for anything more sensitive than shitposting.
The primary caveat is that normie SMTP servers won't accept email
from you, so the only people you can email are fellow autists. Normies should be able to send mail
to you.
The other caveat is that your computer needs to be online to receive email, and other servers will only try so many times to send it before giving up. IIRC they'll keep trying for at least a day or two, but less and less often. Maybe just once every few hours after awhile. So if this is your laptop and you're frequently on the move, you might get unlucky. You could get a Raspberry PI or a cheap old corporate laptop from eBay, and as long as it's on 12 hours a day it would probably be very reliable.
Your ISP probably blocks port 25 which is outbound SMTP, so you and your buddy would probably need to listen on both port 25 (for normie email) and some other port for your email (this requires non-standard config on both your ends but is probably easy).
You could also try some more esoteric things, like email over Tor (no clue if this works, but it should be possible). Freenet has something kind of like email, if you don't mind pedos storing small chunks of encrypted CP on your hard drive as the price of free speech. These are both only going to work with fellow chuds. You sick fuck.
You can't send email to the big "cool kids" club, but you could shitpost with your small group of chudbuds. If it ever gets big/popular, however, you'll probably find yourself in a similar position to cock.li.
I think the future of the Internet is a boot stomping on a human face, forever, but more specifically, we are seeing a bifurcation into the "respectable" internet and the "non-respectable" internet. I think the powers that be are currently more focused on making that separation complete than in eliminating the latter, which is much harder to pull off. DropKiwiFarms never made any headway against the Tor service beyond DDoS attacks, and had Dear Feeder been content to lurk on Tor, they probably would have called that a victory.
The problem is that it
would have been a victory, because the goal is to "quarantine" us all off in some dark corner and wait for us to die. Our little small-i-internet would glow brightly and be small enough to deal with in other ways.
TL;DR It's not actually a solution to the noose tightening around the Internet's neck, but LARPing your own email setup is a totally realistic fun hobby project and you'd probably learn a lot.
