@Mrfunkedude

This reminds me about a post of a person killing their email server after 23 years.

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html

Why? Because the big companies made sure to make it as hard as possible to run your own server.

Open protocols are a choice, but once they're dominated by a few companies the options are limited.