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What's the biggest reason you self-host?
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I would have voted "because it's cool" but really it's because I have control of my software and my equipment. Education is part of the deal. Security and privacy is not guaranteed but it's under my control.
Definitely missing out on "better services" because large data models can do very good spam filtering which I don't get because I don't have access to other peoples' mail ... (which falls into privacy concerns... of other people...)