@mdione@en.osm.town

Guys, you cannot imagine how much I can relate!

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DNS are quite fundamental to the Internet, @_elena@mastodon.social so unfortunately a proper configuration is a sort of rite of passage, just like learning that it might take a couple of days for any update to propagate, so getting them right in the first place is just as wise as tricky.

Fortunately you are not going to face the burden #Google's #GMail imposed to all of us by self-hosting your email server, that is way worse than a website or a fediverse node!
Consider self-hosting your email server like the last level big-boss in your favourite adventure game.

Anyway, if in the future you'll want to try a simpler (and likely cheeper) alternative Fediverse software, I just published a short tutorial on snac here: https://encrypted.tesio.it/2024/12/18/how-to-run-your-own-social-network.html

It also discuss some of the vulnerabilities of the #fediverse that you might not be aware yet (but that can all be mitigated by #selfhosting your instances, so you are on the good track anyway 😉 )