There's something very satisfying about self-hosting email. Feels like I can "seize the means of communication"
Its absurd that something so simple and so ubiquitous felt so far from me before, as if it is obvious that email would need to be owned by the mega-corps (Gmail, Outlook, etc)
Mastodon (particularly via Snac) gives me the same feeling. It's a glimpse at an internet that I was too young to know. One of open communication and cooperation, rather than ad-driven bollocks