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I use Ubuntu server as well and for me it mainly was that I was already familiar with the Ubuntu way of doing things. :D And Ubuntu Server has a few more convenience features like kernel livepatching. And I think the software on Ubuntu LTS is a bit less outdated than that on Debian stable

I run Anonaddy on a oracle cloud server without issues. You'll need some SMTP relay service like smtp2go or mailjet of course. But other than that it works fine.

Port 25 is only blocked outbound. Recieving mail works fine on oracle cloud free tier servers.

It's probably best to still use a VPN or seedbox. But the chance that you get some nice mail is much lower because much more effort is required by the lawfirm. In order to get the IP addresses of people seeding the torrent they would first need an account and would get banned pretty quickly by not seeding or just snatching hundreds of torrents and not downloading them

I use docker-mailserver which is just one docker container running the basic services without the complexity of a webui an managing groupware

https://github.com/fnep/mtv_dl mtv_dl allows searching the Mediathekview database from the command line and download all videos that haven't already been downloaded and that fit the search. I use it to download new episodes from TV shows that I'm interested in

what Usenet provider are you using? the ones I've found were much more expensive

I currently use it (I don't self host the server component though) and it works pretty flawlessly

AwesomeWM should allow switching workspaces independently if you want to try a dynamic tiler

If the Fediverse gets big enough search engines wil probably optimize for it e.g. prioritizing the instance of the community...

It wasn't end to end encrypted though because that wouldn't have allowed server side virus scanning

You could proxy your Webservice though a reverse SSH tunnel to a vps (that's basically what cloudflare tunnels do)