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planned Proton replacement (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by inlandempire@jlai.lu to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've cancelled my subscription yesterday, conveniently it was about to renew at the end of the week, so I have a few days to migrate from Proton, here's what I'm thinking of, but I'd love to hear what other people are switching to

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[–] WandowsVista@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've been using mailbox.org for a few years now and I love it.

the web client is good, and it was easy to set up on my phone alongside my other accounts.

it costs money (something like €3/year), but it's worth it.

plus, it's still relatively new, so if you suffer from Generic White Guy Name™ like I do, you can finally have a username/email address that's not full of numbers.

[–] amgine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I switched to mailbox from proton and put addy.io in front of it for custom domains and aliasing

[–] siftmama@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You're better off adding a custom domain anyway, that way you're not vendor locked and you can move the emails with ease. It's included in all the subs I think.

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

can i ask for more details about the email address and generic names thing? I'm not sure i understand whar you mean sorry

[–] syzygy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Basically there's no way you could get an email address of just: [first][last]@gmail.com on Gmail, because there are so many users of Gmail. That's not the case for newer services with less users.

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 1 points 1 day ago

ohhh right that makes sense thanks