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What's a good alternative to Proton? (piefed.social)

submitted 3 days ago by bowsertattoo@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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Proton is seeming sketchier lately. What alternatives do y'all have in your back pocket? Especially for email, but really any part of the suite.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Custom domain 100%. And use a catch all so you can use any address on it, and give a different address to every service/place.

That should work with most providers, but I made Port87 to make that super easy to manage.

The best thing about doing email that way is no matter how great a provider is now they can always turn shitty, and like you said, this setup makes it super easy to switch.

[–] SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I tried the different address for every service thing and found it way too much hassle. I think at the very least having only one you tell the actual humans in your life is important.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It normally is a lot of hassle. I tried to make it very easy with Port87.

[–] SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

I mostly mean the human side of it. Even without something like that the alias part was fine, it was not remembering which one I used when asked in person. Or family members being unable to remember my email because the answer wasn't the same one time.

I understand why the idea is appealing, I'm just putting it out there for anyone else reading that the human element is a cost I hadn't considered when I started. Personally I don't have enough of a spam problem to warrant committing to it.