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[eric]

Decommissioned

That didn’t last very long. A few problems were immediately apparent after running this service for a few days:

1. My K8S ingress controller was sending http traffic intended for the Matrix server to the Apache server. This didn’t seem to interfere too much with either service, but was not a good state for the network to be in. This could be solved by using www.eom.dev for this page.
2. I only have one port 22 available for git access over ssh, and Gitea is a far superior service over Gitweb.

Even so, I think there were some good ideas in this project. It might be useful to have a homepage at the base url, and I think the simplicity of the discussion board was quite elegant. The source code is available here should I return to this idea later:

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I still think I’m on to something with my discussion on email as an underrated protocol and the potential benefits of utilizing it over other mediums of communication; however, I am not sure where I am going with any of these ideas. I will most likely continue experimenting with things to see what sticks.

Email: The Original Social Media

SMTP is one of the most significant communications protocols used on the internet today. While HTTP is ubiquitous and probably the first to come to mind for the average person, email is the de facto standard for interpersonal communications online. Of all the services I have hosted on eom.dev, the mailserver has been the most involved to set up; however, it is also the one I use most often. I use this account for just about everything. Most people have an email account, and most insti…