> For almost 15 years, I have run my own email server which I use for all of my non-work correspondence. I do so to keep autonomy, control, and privacy over my

> For almost 15 years, I have run my own email server which I use for all of my non-work correspondence. I do so to keep autonomy, control, and privacy over my email and so that no big company has copies of all of my personal email. [...] A few years ago, I was surprised to find out that my friend [...] a very privacy conscious person who is [...] at the EFF — used Gmail. Almost the exact same situation here, except my friend was once at an EFF-related organization. I think a lot of things, like the tech industry turning into '80s Wall Street bros, wore down some of his on-principle determination. And when life got too busy, he gave up, and moved to GMail. I was very surprised to learn. Another friend, who in school was one of those MIT student Linux hackers who had serious OPSEC as ordinary practice, once he had kids, and had to think about continuity of all the things he ran if something should happen to him, ended up moving home stuff to popular Apple and Google services.