Topic: Self Hosting

The hosts discuss technical difficulties with their newsletter delivery, blaming MailChimp and the general "broken" state of email. They claim that companies like Substack and MailChimp must pay large sums to be "whitelisted" by Google and Outlook. A mention of Start9, a company providing hardware for home-based self-hosting, highlights the difficulty of running independent email servers in an ecosystem controlled by Big Tech.

The No Agenda show promotes its decentralized social media platform, No Agenda Social, which operates on the Mastodon protocol. This "Fediverse" model allows for a federated network of servers that function similarly to Twitter but without centralized algorithms or corporate moderation. The hosts highlight a growing movement among millennials toward self-hosting their own social media instances to avoid the pitfalls of centralized platforms like Reddit.

The hosts advocate for independent media hosting rather than relying on centralized platforms like YouTube or Podbean. They discuss the technical challenges of managing high-traffic RSS feeds and why they avoid using Archive.org for primary distribution due to the "surge" of data during new episode releases.