> Otherwise this "stand up your own email/cloud" trend would have started last summer. It did! Understandably, since it's not absolutely-zero-effort, there ha

> Otherwise this "stand up your own email/cloud" trend would have started last summer. It did! Understandably, since it's not absolutely-zero-effort, there hasn't been 100% uptake, but Alex Payne started up a project that lets you run you own private cloud with surprisingly little configuration: https://github.com/al3x/sovereign https://github.com/al3x/sovereign I've been using it for a few months now and have been quite happy with it. I'm in agreement with you, though, that it won't scale to the entire world, but I don't think that it needs to.