SelfPrivacy is in “Open beta” and promises to make setup and use of email, messager, password management, video chat and other services simple by leveraging the likes of Hetzner, Cloudflare, and Backblaze.
I stumbled on the app while browsing the F-droid app “store” and had never heard of them. I think the proposition is neat and while I’m comfortable hosting most of these services myself, my curiosity has been piqued. Searching for it elsewhere on the web as far as privacy rating, reviews, etc has left me empty handed. I dont’ know if they’re just too new or not. So I’m curious if anyone has tried them out or looked into it further.
I guess my question was geared more towards what would happen if you chose to host the entire box on a VPS server somewhere, or heck, even had it at home from a publicly accessible IP address / port. At that point, wouldn’t it essentially be the same “single pane of glass” setup as you describe above?
I guess when it comes to trusting the distribution maintainers, I take that for granted… After all, if I didn’t, at that point one would have to write off a ton of Linux distributions entirely for server usage… I think. If I understand the argument correctly, anyway.