Thinking of starting media creation, want to have an email address dedicated to that purpose. Don’t want to go with Gmail as I’d like to phase Google out of my life, amd Protonmail seems i correct for this because it largely wouldn’t be encrypted mail.
Recommendations?
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Iirc my email on proton is encrypted. I believe I set it up that way. Good provider for me.
The CEO of Proton recently came out as a right wing partisan who supports American neofascism. I would look elsewhere for email providers, Proton is not as trustworthy as they purport to be.
I would say he’s a right-wing “Libertarian” not a maga supporter. People like him say dumb things all the time, Andy Yen is also not an American, so he might be just ignorant to what republicans actually do. If you check his twitter, he posted some pro-ukraine stuff, and has donated to Ukraine, and also is pro- Hong Kong protesters, anti-censorship in Russia and Iran.
Besides, he may be CEO, but he ain’t a dictator of Proton.
Do you have any sources for that?
One of the posts discussing it https://lemmy.ca/post/37218429
It was discussed in real time across Lemmy with links to Mastodon and Reddit where the CEO and the official Proton account made various partisan statements that have destroyed Protons reputation. I didn’t save links but I’m sure you can dig them up easily enough.
https://archive.ph/quYyb Guess you‘re right, fuck me man.
Yeah, gotta find a new VPN also. What an asshole (the CEO).
It was completely shocking, I would expect him to be smart enough not to make statements like that but I guess it’s masks off now that their guy is in power.
Proton is not the sum total of one of its board members.
As always, I recommend Posteo. It’s cheap (1€/mo), allows third party apps and at least their website doesn’t have any trackers or ads. Probably the best paid one out there.
Bring your own domain.
You don’t want to be locked in to one mail provider for life. Just bring your domain when you leave.
I’ve had mine since 2010. First on Gmail, then proton and now purelymail. Gmail is evil. Proton is pricy, and more so if you have several domains. Purelymail is very affordable in comparison.
If you want a standards-based service without bullshit and with custom domain support, I can recommend Purelymail.
Purelymail has been in beta since 2019. I am not sure if that is a good email provider.
I’ve been using it for several months now and haven’t run into any issues.
That’s not the point. How can a software like this be in beta for 6 years? The developers clearly don’t care about it much.
… I’m not a purelymail user or know much about it… But, I guess I am old now…
I’m guessing the service being in beta for 6 years is a joke. It’s a reference to Gmail being in beta forever.
