Having an extra VPS is not going to be cheaper since I already have email capable infrastructure. And I have read in Lemmy of people self-hosting email without issue. So it must be a reasonable expectation that it might be possible.

I didn’t mention it, but I understand that the reason behind is spam. That doesn’t justify the straight up full ban for regular consumers, I think.

And “I lack some technical background” does not mean that I can’t follow tutorials, install modoboa and set up DNS records and spam filters. It means I lack the provider’s point of view.

Anyway, thanks for contributing.

Honestly, I don’t know which distro is not plug and play with steam nowadays. I’ve tried Garuda, Manjaro and Linux Mint so far, no notable issue.

Ah! If you have never heard of it I can tell you: it’s the foss, self-hostable equivalent of Discord. Except we are still waiting for the voice channels.