What’s the best email to use? Anyone have suggestions? usability? I haven’t changed because I just end up with decision overload / paralysis.
@LavaPlanet @LEONARDE11 I switched a few times. With Tutanota. It’s good and does what I need. I like it so much have gone from the free plan to the paid plan. My advice is if you’re not sure, just switch.
IMO the best choices are Tuta Mail or Proton Mail. Proton has the best UI and UX but is a bit controversial due to its CEO. I personally use Proton because the UI is that much better.
But you have to use their app, right? You can’t just use thunderbird or whatever
I think that in browsers it would be better than at least they added to Librewolf, it is the best browser based in Firefox
proton ceo supports trump
ACAB: All CEOs Are Bastards. You can switch to another corporation, but their CEO will also be a bourgeois bastard. Tim Apple attended Trump’s inauguration.
If we’re judging all products by the personalities of people who run them we’d have nothing left lol
? what
Maybe you have other information that I’m not aware of, but this article gives what looks to me a balanced review of whether Andy Yen supports Trump or not:
It’s not a cut and dry pro-MAGA situation.
That article is a lot of “maybe” and “probably” for something that really should be cut and dry. If he doesn’t want people to believe he supports Trump, there needs to be a direct condemnation of his actions. Tacit approval is still approval.
thanks for the random medium from someone unknown I guess?
Not a good reason to leave Proton.
i figured this was likely astroturfing by one of the many shitty companies it is advertising, so i went looking for the source. somewhat to my surprise this image was apparently created by reddit user u/theFallenWalnut who’s actually been posting there for over 10 years 🤔
if you check their account you’ll see they’ve actually updated their recommendations to remove several companies (including proton and spotify) which are included in the older version of it posted here.
but, they’re still suggesting lots of garbage.
see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_consumerism#Criticism
Yeah, I excitedly checked out the environmental, non-google, private search engine I’d never heard of, only to discover that Ecosia “only” shares all your data with Google and Microsoft Bing, as it uses their search engines and ad services. They do plant trees, but, their website doesn’t even pretend to be interested in privacy or avoiding Google.
No idea what that walnut is smoking.
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Wikipedia sucks
Can’t disagree. Wikipedia is a lib Trumpist-Bidenist hellhole
Is startpage not recommended? Did I miss something?
As I understand, an adtech company bought a majority stake in StartPage in 2019, and though they apparently can’t use that stake to force privacy-threatening changes, I personally find that acquisition disconcerting. Probably not enough to say it’s unsafe to use, but enough that I prefer some of the other options out there.
Duck duck go is bing on the back end
And so are the rest of them.¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not brave search
Well ok, not so much anymore but point sorta stands
Mastodon is tagged with Privacy but Signal isn’t? I wonder what privacy means to OOP
yeah everything you post on Mastodon is public. I assume this is about the data being collected on you, which Mastodon doesn’t do, there’s no telemetry and such.
But lemmy isn’t marked as private there. Wouldn’t it be the same as mastodon?
When you implement OOP the right way, it can have decent privacy. Up to the coder, really.
Windows, MacOS -> Linux
Lost me at signal
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To be fair, the people here in Lemmy already know about half of these and are willing to changethe rest. Using reddit to spread the word actually reaches the target audience of this post.
same
Honestly out of all those switches email is the one I’ve always struggled with. I feel like that one would take a ton of effort to switch over my accounts on various things to a new email. If anyone has any advice or ways to make that easier I’d love that as otherwise I’m still stuck with Gmail.
My main suggestion is to start, and to start earlier rather than later. If you have an email account you don’t like, every time you express that it’s associated with you means you’ll have to make one more update in order to completely switch.
I decided to switch around Black Friday when there was a discount for a paid subscription, and then to try to avoid using my old email account unless I saw a website reference it (like if I had to log in or specifically check for an email).
I feel a lot more comfortable using email than I used to (although I still try to avoid using it), so switching has improved my quality of life overall.
The presentation of this information feels… curated. It’s difficult to dismiss the possibility that it’s been strategically crafted, perhaps as a form of marketing. The echo of Protonmail’s previous Mastodon activity – a year of seemingly earnest engagement that ultimately felt rather self-serving – lends a certain cynicism to the matter.
Genuinely not my post. I just shared it from my saved images on my phone. I really don’t like the idea of being exploited by tech companies with no regard for their users.
- Bluesky now owned by crypto-grifters
- “I prefer to meet people where they are” says reasonable-sounding white dude holding court at a table in the back of a Nazi Bar. | It’s Bluesky. The Nazi Bar[1] is Bluesky.
r/TalesFromYourServer: Kicking a Nazi out as soon as they walk in ↩︎
Yeah it makes no sense to me how dumb people can be. Like
“Yeah let’s move away from one proprietary social media that got enshitified to another proprietary social media that will definitely enshitify”
I don’t know how many times people have to learn the exact same lesson before they finally figure it out but I think there’s a fucking quote about that.
If it hasn’t already, moving from corporate owner to corporate owner will become some sort of ritual, a modern form of tradition.
My brother in law …moved from Apple to Google cause he decided he hated Apple.
That’s a first step. He’ll soon hate Google and move to GrapheneOS and start self-hosting. No, wait, that was me. Never mind.
My contract with Three/iPhone13 ended in January, that phone was done for (Charging port) but my other half’s 13 was fine. I’ll burn this out and then get a Fairphone and do similar. Don’t get the point in swapping one big tech for another big tech.
Signal is centralised and may just be the next WhatsApp. Does anyone have experience with matrix? Could it be a decent alternative to WhatsApp or signal?
Matrix is alright with clients like Element (X) and Cinny. But for me it’s rather a (still somewhat lacking) Discord replacement. Maybe at some point with better clients this improves. The protocol already allows for a lot of stuff but most clients don’t implement most functionality (yet).
Spotify is pretty fucking bad too. They don’t get a pass for not being Google.
Yeah spotify is fucking vile. I hear my peers praise it for its alleged ability to perfect tailor playlists and recommendations for music discovery- because I guess we can’t be bothered to figure out what music we like anymore. And them of course, it behinds spoonfeeding its users their own ai-generated slop that they don’t have to pay licensing fees for.
Yeah that rec shocked me. Bandcamp surely if possible is best for the artist.
Owned by amazon though it indeed is best for artists atm.
On Wikipedia it says Epic Games bought them in 2022, then in 2023 Songtradr bought Bandcamp off Epic. Songtradr then fired half of Bandcamp staff.
Eh… they’re still doing Bandcamp Fridays this year where they take no commission. I just had a look and this year it’s:
May 2nd
August 1st
September 5th
October 3rd
December 5th
I have heard about certain creators disliking Bandcamp and wanting to not use it anymore, but I don’t know why that is.
Seriously. They donated millions to the trump campaign and barely pay artists pennies.
The music space is one of the biggest things we’re lacking platforms for right now for sure. I’ve shifted over to Tidal for the time being, but I swear I’m just tempted to go back to local files at this point.
I quit Tidal after they dropped the Plex integration
NewPipe works if you’re desperate
I’m slowly moving back to local files. Though that gets expensive very quickly so you know what that means.
Yep, and I hate that because I want to support the artists and mostly listen to more obscure shit these days. Plus bandcamp is owned by Amazon I believe so even though the artists get more out of it, there’s still a Bezos tax.
Then there’s figuring out how to stream it remotely while driving or whatever. It’s a whole thing.
I do genuinely really like Tidal so far, but I’m not familiar with their company’s political stances or anything, and of course it’s not FOSS at all. Spotify is dead to me though.
Spotube is decent for playing Spotify playlists you come across or people send you
