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    • @[email protected]
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      151 year ago

      I moved to proton mail personally after having Gmail since forever.

      Took a year and I pay 40usd per year but worth it

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        How safe / stable is proton mail? Say they go under in 5 years are you just fucked? Or is your setup such that you could move easily? Also is your email just [email protected]? Or something longer?

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          131 year ago

          I don’t have a crystal ball but Proton is the go-to, privacy-focused email provider. They are based in Switzerland.

          They likely have a way for you to export your emails if they go under or use a desktop email client to archive them.

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            31 year ago

            It’s less the backup more all the stuff linked to your account. All the sign-ups if they go down fast… You’re fucked 😕

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              11 year ago

              I pay for LastPass and would never go back. I know there are other options that people will point out but I’m too invested now haha.

              I highly recommend getting LastPass or something similar. It was much easier to make the transition away from google products

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                71 year ago

                As a former LastPass customer, I’m telling you to move over the BitWarden. LastPass has had bad security break-ins.

                  • Cosmic Cleric
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                    21 year ago

                    There is zero reason anyone should use LastPass when bitwarden exists.

                    No, that’s not true at all. Wow, what a horribly bad take that you have.

                    There is one very incredibly valid reason why they would use LastPass.

                    And that would be, because they own stock in the company.

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          1 year ago

          I have my own domain. So I’d lose my emails but I could just move the address. I’d recommend that for sure. In case you want to move to another mail provider down the line it’s super simple.

          I think it’s a bit extra to have a custom domain but it’s super worth it.

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      71 year ago

      I’m exactly in the same boat, been considering migrating to protonmail. Have moved everything else to alternatives except gmail.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Slowly working on hosting my own. Stuff like this is not fast for me since I am a hobbyist and not in tech professionally. But, I’m getting there.

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        21 year ago

        I just switched to getting my own domain and hosting it as a bundle with the domain provider. The Web client sucks, but I use thunderbird anyways.

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          31 year ago

          That is a better idea than me foolishly trying to get all of it running out of my basement. So many little things that lead to other little things. Right now, my “ditch gmail” project is a build my own router with openwrt project.

          Fuggen rabbit holes man.

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            21 year ago

            I would not recommend self hosting at all. The bigger providers usually don’t even accept mail from unknown servers/domains.