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Useful Websites
General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
Buy European meta website with useful links: https://gohug.eu/ (relevant post)
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local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.
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๐ง๐ช Belgium: https://0d.gs/
๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
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๐จ๐ฟCzech Republic https://lemmings.world/
๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
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๐น๐ท Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
๐ฌ๐ง UK: https://feddit.uk/
Friendica:
๐ฆ๐น Austria: https://friendica.io/
๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://poliverso.org/
๐ฉ๐ช Germany: https://piratenpartei.social/ & https://anonsys.net/
๐ซ๐ท Significant French speaking userbase: https://social.trom.tf/
๐ต๐ฑ Poland: soc.citizen4.eu
Matrix:
๐ฌ๐ง UK: matrix.org & glasgow.social
๐ซ๐ท France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr
๐ฉ๐ช Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: bark.lgbt
๐ฆ๐น Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
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I switched to posteo. 1eur / month, does the job. Also use Thunderbird on mobile.
If people plan on switching my recommendation is not to do it all at once. Create the new email account and then slowly when you use accounts or buy something online point to the new account. It's also a good idea since you start a fresh email account to not give your email to just any random websites or services. For this I use firefox email relay that I also pay 1$ per month.
What's the current assessment of protonmail? It seems top tier to me.
Works for me, definitely one of Proton's best products. Now Calendar on the other hand.. needs some love.
I was using it and I moved away. A combination of needing to use their app instead of a normal email client, irritating number of screens and frustratingly slow loading of the webmail page and the ceo comments that could be seen as praising trump made me look at other providers. I went with malibox.org and have 0 regrets.
I mean there are tons of options for EU hosted mail services.
Germany has gmx.net and web.de, France has orange.fr, Belgium proximus.be, Denmark has one.com and Sweden loopia.se just to touch on bigger local options.
Are there any free options among them? I donโt use email, and if Iโd do, I think Iโd rather self-host. I donโt care about ~~deliberately~~ deliverability (sorry, phone typo), if Iโd be in contact with the same people
But Iโd appreciate having some decent mailbox to receive emails. I donโt mind if itโd be like 100 Mb or something, I think Iโd keep Gmail just for spam social networks I donโt use anyway.
Or does any decent option means itโs paid, even if โฌ1 a month.
Tuta is German and has a free tier.
Free means you're the product.
Paid means that you might be the product and cheap means I expect you to be the product.
My recommendation would be to read the tos and look for their data gathering and analytics info before choosing a vendor.
Iโm also interested to know if there are any self-hosted options for mail, I donโt see any difference between using the local alternatives vs. bigcorpos; they still own the data and weโre paying them to do so
For self-hosted, Iโve heard round cube is nice. We use it at work. Itโs okay. Web client is ugly last time I checked, but everyone has their clients, so thereโs no real difference to any other email provider, except the company controls it entirely.
Iโd deploy Round Cube for myself and family, but I have very little motivation to do so. I email some internet people very infrequently, and thatโs pretty much it. Some services send me emails, but they are mostly spam, I created a separate email for people (and I have like one email a week at best), and I really donโt care about that other email for spam. So, I donโt know, I donโt feel any real need to self-host.
Roundcube is the webmail client (IMAP client) component of selfhosting an email server. You could use it together with postfix (SMTP Server) and dovecot (IMAP and POP3 server) to put together a simple mailstack. Use opendkim and opendmarc to improve your deliverability and make it harder to impersonate your mail domain. Add spamassassin to get rid of some spam.
Another option is to look into mailcow or mailinabox, they deliver a completed package built around the above.
Do everything right and still see google and microsoft send you straight to spam because you don't have enough email traffic to be considered legitimate (or important) enough to care about.
I saw Soverin too when searching, but I decided to go for mailo for 12 euros per year. Client on is not good and so I went with thunderbird. www.mailo.com
In my case I was hesitating between mailbox and soverin, and I've chosen mailbox for the pricing. I still use my mailo account with a free tier for the moment.
Are you an ad? Who the hell pays 12 euros for mail when the German mailbox is like a pound a month
Probably a typo, mailo is 12โฌ per year
Typo yes! its 12 per year! fixed thanks both. hi again blaze.