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[contrarianarchon]

What's a good, honest, god-fearing netizen supposed to do if they should happen to want to keep contact with various friends and government departments into the long-term? Gmail is not looking like I can rely on it into the medium-term future. What does one do if one wants a stable email?

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[contrarianarchon]

(I keep thinking of things to say a few minutes later.)

Also that appears to be a blog about blog-making. Does she have any chops in the blogging world or did she launch straight into it? On examination she seems to have transitioned from "Blogging about nothing because boredom" to "Blogging about blogging to extract money from lesser bloggers" at some point but archive crawls are hard enough when people aren't trying to sell shit/rebrand away from that era, and I'm not that invested.

[brin_bellway]

*shrug* I'm not invested in that particular guide either: it was just an example.

It does look like a lot of the easier-to-find guides are advertising small-business stuff, possibly because sites like that put more effort into SEO. I looked for a more generalised and less G-Suite-y one and next found a site that made a snide remark about "you have the right to use an ad-blocker, but *we* have the right to ~protect the integrity of our content~" and shut me out. I *do* generally turn off my adblockers for sites that ask nicely, but that was *not* a *nice* ask, so I circumvented it instead. (It does seem to have some useful information buried in there.)

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I'm pretty sure I'd feel safer relying on myself and my in-house tech support than relying on Google (who does not care about me) or god forbid Rogers (who cares about me for only so long as we continue to pay them $90 - $130 per month, depending on how many currently-toothless threats to leave we've made lately; pretty sure I could get roughly-equivalent Internet service for ~$70).

Like, the fact is, I have (for example) diary entries from 2003, and a picture of a puppy that has since died of old age (wait, did I not make a post about that one? fixed), because it was on me to maintain them and I *did*. Faithfully carried from one computer to the next (and later to several computers at once), surviving an international move and an abrupt motherboard failure and in some cases the cessation of support for their original file formats. I don't have my emails from 2003, because Comcast kicked me out when I moved out of their service area and I was 13 and didn't know how to make local backups of external emails, and the prospect of trying to maybe learn how was overwhelming while dealing with a new country.

Also, it seems like the more likely custom-domain fuckups--failing to renew your domain hosting, failing to update redirects when you move to a new email provider--would result in *temporary* email bouncing until you realise and fix it (unless somebody snipes your lapsed domain, I suppose: might be best to avoid getting a name that anyone else is likely to want), while disasters caused by other people deciding to kick you out would tend to be harder to come back from.

[contrarianarchon]

This is all fair but I don't actually have time to think about it right now, and probably need to do more serious research before venturing a technical opinion. But exams will be exams.