The FreedomBox enables you to control your view of the internet
Wonder who their target demographic is. People balk at paying for email from a known provider, let alone buy a box to run it out of their own home for $100. You’d have to have a lot of motivation to do so, and it feels like the Venn diagram of people who are savvy and motivated enough to care about digital privacy, intersected with those with technical skills feels like nearly 90% overlap. And I’m not so sure the privacy group is so sizable. I’d probably be in this camp but I really don’t want to have to worry about spam filters, triggering them in others by sending from my home ISP, nor dealing with backup or corrupted databases. Wonder what their plan is there...<p>The average person who wants this without being their own sysadmin should probably just use Apple products. I work for Apple and can attest that privacy isn’t just marketing — it permeates all decision making in every discussion I’ve been a part of... sometimes making it harder or impossible to create the things we’d like to have (privacy wins). I know many on HN will want their “freedom” as in “freedom box,” but the average user massively benefits from an ecosystem designed to make things as easy, desirable, and supported as possible.