> For example, host your own mail. Ugh, yeah, good luck on this one. You can get by quite well using one of the major providers as an (outbound-only, if desire

> For example, host your own mail. Ugh, yeah, good luck on this one. You can get by quite well using one of the major providers as an (outbound-only, if desired) gateway though. > Do people host their own webservers anymore? (is a VPS is good enough?) Yes and yes but mostly it's Docker hell > IRC? muds? They're both still around, albeit a shadow of their former selves. IRC is better than ever, use a client like The Lounge and it's basically(*) a modern chat app. (* Okay, stuff like multi-line and message editing are still effectively missing, but you get embeds and whatnot)