I have had real, bona-fide, crispy doughnuts. They are a dream. They are delish. They are wunderbar. Now I am hangry for them.
Deep fry those dough dogs like fritters, and put whatever kind of toppings you wish, and eat with a fork or spoon or play 3 little pigs with the plate ... it's all good.
A scoop of ice cream on top of one fresh out of the fryer ... yum!
Tell your friend, regardless of which instance is chosen, to post relevant items to these groups that are followed by hundreds and even thousands of crafters:
However going with a larger instance like mastodon.social will make her posts more visible in the local feed.
There are also some reddit subs with many thousands and even hundreds of thousands of crafters subscribed. For example, r/knitting has over half a million subscribers and 111 are online right now. The r/sewing subreddit has over 2 million members and 85 are online right now.
I know, nobody wants to run their own mail server because hassle. It has gotten so complicated that engineers don't even want to fuss with their own mail server and would rather just pay to have someone else bother. But I found a very low-hassle way to do it. HestiaCP manages everything automatically, so you don't have to spend endless time manually configuring everything on the mail host. (https://hestiacp.com/)
0. Buy your own shiny, new TLD. 1. Get a cheap VPS at Racknerd. They have them for less than $20 per year. Find the deals at lowendtalk. 2. Install Debian on the VPS. 3. Install HestiaCP on the fresh VPS install. 4. Point registrar DNS to your VPS IP address as the custom DNS server. 5. Use the web interface of HestiaCP to add your mail domain and accounts.
Done.
You now control all your own unlimited email accounts on your own domain for about $30-50 per year. Plus you can host any other kind of apps, including your own fediverse instance, a tor node, a web server, etc. As long as your other apps are each run under separate user accounts, there is virtually no risk to your email privacy.
For the most part you do not need to manually configure DNS. Hestia does it for you. But make sure to put your TLD and static IP in /etc/hosts, and reboot, before installing Hestia. That will save you some head scratching.
It may take a few weeks for your new TLD reputation to get cleared with some other MX hosts. That's just the way it is now with all new domains. So for a few weeks you might get bounces sending to some hosts, but after a while that clears up as long as no new spam originates with your domain MX.
Name: Byrl Raze Buckbriar (call me Raze).About: Underage curmudgeon and expert in Murphy's Law. I grew grouchy before over the hill was a thing. Neither 'glass half empty' nor 'glass half full.' I want the whole tankard. Speak not with words. Speak with work product. I enjoy crypto, ciphers, puzzles, riddles, and wordplay.Site: Cryptography project site. (https://octade.net)Publications: https://octade.net/publications.htmlORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5144-3278Netnews: Find me on #Usenet in #Newsgroup alt.rhubarb.Git: https://codeberg.org/OCTADEKeyoxide1: https://keyoxide.org/0CF7084CF97B85F2ABF97010C6663A42C56F5F0EKeyoxide2: https://keyoxide.org/B9B2A8EC2C4B20D2011CFEAA07E4A7FFF6585E8FBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/octade.bsky.socialHackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=OCTADE#bible #crypto #cryptography #cryptology #ciphers #conlang #retro #bash #pascal #random #usenet #simplicity #encryption #privacy #linux #bsd #hacking #poetry #math #writing #research #tinker