this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2026
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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/76545241

Requirements

  1. FOSS
  2. No, minimal, or human-checked AI code
  3. Free-to-use
  4. I'm asking for FOSS PROVIDERS, not proprietary providers with FOSS clients
  5. Not under authoritarian juristiction
  6. At least one independent security audit
  7. Lightweight
  8. Low on memory

Optional things:

  1. Self-hostable
  2. Environmental ideals
  3. Under European juristiction
  4. Not hosted on Github

Suggest MULTUPLE providers as I seek to decentralize the services I use ad much as possible

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[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 5 hours ago

What is a FOSS email provider? I've only ever seen that term applied to software before.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your requirements are impossible. May as well throw in unlimited handjobs and world peace while you’re at it.

[–] promitheas@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why are you talking to us as if were LLMs?

REQUIREMENTS ... OPTIONAL ...

DO NOT SUGGEST TUTA OR PROTONMAIL

SUGGEST MULTIPLE BLAH BLAH BLAH

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Rolling your own can fulfill all your requirements. Just download some server software and put it somewhere you trust

[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're getting a lot of downvotes, but in a better world this stuff would all be standard... Unfortunately I have no suggestions though

[–] halm@leminal.space 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe they're being downvoted because they're formulating their question and list of demands as if it were a ransom note, or a chatbot prompt.

[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

That's not entirely untrue, fair 😅

I do wish conditions like these were more obtainable though... It all seems like stuff that people on the earlier internet would assume was the norm by now.

[–] hellothere@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago
[–] Wrongdoer2@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago
[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Ever heard about TANSTAAFL?