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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Onet, a Polish news website. I used it for my first ever e-mail and since then I have been using it kind of out of habit. Never felt a need to switch to something more robust.

Of course I have a gmail account too, but I use it mostly for things like logins and synchronization rather than for correspondence.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Switched to Posteo about a decade ago

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Posteo here ๐Ÿ™‹โ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Tutmail for me. 15 email addresses included..

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Proton, but I donโ€™t think they can justify their monthly price for ยซpremiumยป features.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Same here, some features kinda pointless. Like why would I ever need 10 email addresses on one account?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Mailbox.org

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I stick to my state owned ISP

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's a world outside the US/European false dichotomy.

I've been with Fastmail since 2019 and you couldn't pay me to go elsewhere. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Australian here happy with Runbox, from an european country that respects privacy, unlike the 5 eyes. Unfortunately Australia is not a good country to get a cloud service.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not everyone wants their backdoors to be legally authorized. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I created an account with Tuta. But I haven't found time for the actual migration

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Imfomaniak for me, not sure if it was the best choice, but at least I made a move.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I've had a proton account since 2016 but be er really used it much. I am now using it as my main account and have mothballed Gmail but will eventually delete Google altogether.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Proton. Because i know how to read, and people had twisted the CEOs words completely beyond what was written. Reading โ€˜andโ€™ comprehension folks. Try to build both skills.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Anyone who has a different opinion than mine is necessarily an idiot

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Happy proton user here too. For 5 years already ๐Ÿ˜Š

[โ€“] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He supports nazis. I don't care why.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's not the right mindset, but he really did say positive things that were simply not true about Trump's party in the wake of current-ish events.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why is nazis=bad the wrong mindset? Its been good enough for most people for 100 years.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The problem is, the person saying "these guys are nazis" could be simply lying.

A good example is Putin funding nazis everywhere in ex-USSR since around 2005, then managing to get Europeans to think the Ukrainian freedom movement was somehow a nazi movement even though the prevalence of right-wing extremism was growing until 2014 just like in the Russia and started decreasing in 2014, while it kept rising in the Russia and Russia-controlled areas such as Crimea.

If the Russia was to gain control over Ukraine, the prevalence of right wing extremist attacks would start growing again like it did until 2014. And yet, a lot of Europeans, especially in Germany, are opposing Ukraine because of the "these guys are nazis, nazis=bad mindset. Nazis are bad. It's just important to understand that someone accusing someone of being a nazi doesn't mean that the someone actually is a nazi.

The mindset has caused large parts of Ukraine to fall under circumstances that cause there to be more fascism. Anti-fascism has ended up promoting fascism in this case.

I have not read about what Proton's owners have said and will delve into that now. But my experience, having lived in Ukraine in 2015 and 2016 and in Germany between 2008 and 2010 (and still having good friends there), is that many are eager to jump on a bandwagon of lynching an accused nazi, even if the accuser himself is a nazi and the accused is not.

It is ugly seeing precisely those who would be needed for fighting fascism work as errand boys for fascists.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Mailbox.org for me

I've migrated some stuff but lots still to update.

I'm on the lowest tier and only have the 3 aliases, I think it may be worth using multiple aliases from what I keep reading online, so may need to upgrade tier before I migrate more accounts.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I have gone one step further and started a an email provider. Hosted in Frankfurt, backup in Amsterdam.

Custom domain Webmail, IMAP, pop, all with TLS obviously Calendar, tasks, contacts sync all in one, all Foss solutions. Anti spam, anti virus

Haven't figured out how to sell that yet, or at what price, but I'm working on that. XD

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Looking for a good option but I can't convince myself any are good enough to switch. I've created trial/free accounts for all the services I can find but the webmail just isn't as good.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Mailbox. For the imap support.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I switched to Proton too

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