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ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services (slrpnk.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ellie@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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(Sorry if this is too off-topic:) ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services, or at least I feel like that. And it endlessly frustrates me.

The reason is even though IPv6 addresses are widely available (unlike IPv4), most ISPs won't allow consumers to request a static rather than a dynamic IPv6 prefix along with a couple of IPv6 reverse DNS entries.

Instead, this functionality is gatekept behind expensive premium or even business contracts, in many cases even requiring legal paperwork proving you have a registered business, so that the common user is completely unable to self-host e.g. a fully functional IPv6-only mail server with reverse DNS, even if they wanted to.

The common workaround is to suck up to the cloud, and rent a VPS, or some other foreign controlled machine that can be easily intercepted and messed with, and where the service can be surveilled better by big money.

I'm posting this since I hope more people will realize that this is going on, and both complain to their ISPs, but most notably to regulatory bodies and to generally spread the word. If we want true digital autonomy to be more common, I feel like this needs to be fixed for consumer landline contracts.

Or did I miss something that makes this make sense outside of a big money capitalist angle?

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[โ€“] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, that too. I hadn't even thought about trying to send email from a home ISP. Everyone knows you basically can't. I thought the idea was to receive email rather than send it, so you wouldn't be relying on some bigtech company to store it for you.

[โ€“] ellie@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For what it's worth, regarding port blocks, I had relatively good experiences with that with a local ISP here. There's no guarantee, but many ISPs block SMTP to prevent accidental zombie botnets from sending email and not technical users, so by asking might already be enough to show that you know enough about it to be unblocked.

As for the blocks, many spamlists you can get yourself unlisted. But I don't know what permanent range blocks may exist in some systems beyond that.