> for everyone else streaming is enough and you accept stuff will eventually go away e.g I don't care too much that a tv show goes missing. Streaming is consta

> for everyone else streaming is enough and you accept stuff will eventually go away e.g I don't care too much that a tv show goes missing. Streaming is constantly asking a provider to give you a copy of that media, and the provider can always reply with a flat "no", or give you a "remastered" version that doesn't capture the charm that first made you like the media (see Star Wars - not in my personal opinion, but it is a controversy online IIUI). As such, I consider streaming a convenience that's great when it's available, but not something I'd like to be on the mercy of. The digital era gave us the ability to enjoy what we want, when we want it, and I refuse to let copyright dinosaurs ruin my fun. Mail in a Box comes with support for Sieve filtering, but it's unpleasant at best for programmatic processing of email as you described it. I actually built an email server precisely with programmatic processing/sorting/transformation of messages in mind, but other projects took priority and I wasn't able to finish it. > This is something I want to know more about. VPN to the service itself through an open source client? Nope, I mean in the sense that the data is only ever decrypted and encrypted on the endpoints themselves. If the provider ever stores or forwards anything, it's encrypted blobs of data with no added metadata to even hint as to what's inside. > we lose all that convenience because we can't trust services enough to host for us, instead we have to do it ourselves. This mirrors my own reflections. The prevalence of centralised, gatekept systems is the trend of the day. I would greatly prefer a web of peered "communal" servers that each serve between 100 and 10,000 people each, to make sure that no one server dominates while also not putting the burden of server maintenance on each and every person who wants to participate in this. I guess the Fediverse is a shadow of this, but that's just for communication and not say, compute or serious storage. > every piece of the cloud infrastructure and all the services running on top were open source That wouldn't be a bad start. Some degree of transparency as to how you build and configure the control plane of such a cloud to not give yourselves undue power over machines would also be appreciated.