Self-Hosting Email Escalation

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A five-panel expanding-brain meme escalates from using Gmail to increasingly elaborate ways of hosting an email server, ending with self-hosting while backing it up on Google Drive. The joke is that technical enthusiasts turn a simple email choice into an absurdly complicated infrastructure project, then ironically rely on a mainstream cloud service for backups. It is used as a reaction to overengineering, privacy obsession, or impractical self-hosting. EN: A five-panel expanding-brain meme escalates from using Gmail to increasingly elaborate ways of hosting an email server, ending with self-hosting while backing it up on Google Drive. The joke is that technical enthusiasts turn a simple email choice into an absurdly complicated infrastructure project, then ironically rely on a mainstream cloud service for backups. It is used as a reaction to overengineering, privacy obsession, or impractical self-hosting.

• @gentoomemes / 4208 2023-04-27