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A few days ago, the U.S. government sanctioned A/I for supporting "extreme far-left antifa terrorists". If you didn't know, A/I is an antifascist and anticapitalist group based in Italy, and they host a lot of services (like email, website hosting, etc.) run through donations. Their policy states that they are against racism, sexism, militarism, homophobia, and transphobia, and you have to agree to those principles to use their services. Their website and mailing server has been taken down, and unfortunately, that also means my email no longer works. It's kind of insane how quickly the American government can take down internet services they don't like. A/I has denied all of the allegations by the Trump admin, and rightfully so, they're just a digital services provider who respect your privacy and are against fascism and bigotry.

relevant link if you want to read more about this: https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076

I still need to use email, so what's a good alternative email provider that doesn't profit off of my data? I have used Disroot in the past and had good experiences with their services, so they are currently my fallback. I have ruled out Proton and Tuta, as neither support IMAP properly.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do they accept monero donations?

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It looks like they only accept direct transfer and credit card. They do not accept Bitcoin (or any other cryptocurrency), they have a blog article about why on their donation page if you are interested.

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

Crédit card might complicated then....

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago

They will be back. This is trivial to fix.

But if you really want an alternative, disroot is great.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

I use tuta personally. It's free and no bs

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Largely because they've got their ~~easily purchasable corrupt politicians~~ reactionary populists running Italy right now. You can't ignore the politics of the country your host is in, and unfortunately, the billionaires want to extend their oligarchies internationally and would even willingly turn them into dictatorships if that's what it takes. It's the canary in the coal mine for Europe, because this is happening in a lot of places there.

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[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago (17 children)

I've been happy with mailbox.org so far. They offer full mailbox encryption, but unlike proton still support regular imap and smtp. You just need a mail client that supports pgp en/decryption (thunderbird does, both desktop and android).

[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

full mailbox encryption

still support regular imap and smtp

Hmmm, how? For me, it sounds like they are either talking about OpenPGP which everyone can use OR it's, sniff, bs.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The way it works is that it's encrypted at rest on the server with your password.

If the server isn't infected, they can't read your email. If the webmail server is infected, they could store your password on auth (instead of just hashing it immediately) and decrypt your email.

The mitigation to this risk of server integrity compromise is PGP

[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

Okay. New mail arrives. Plaintext, SMTP. You have not logged in today. To store it, it needs to know your password...

About as good as a gate in the middle of a field. Better just use POP3.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago

No blogs loads fine

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've been using Purelymail for a bit over a year now. It's nothing special, just a cheap email provider with full IMAP and SMTP support so you can use any client you want. You can also connect as many domains as you want, make as many accounts as you want and you have unlimited storage.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 2 points 2 days ago

It's truly amazing, I'm also a customer, but please note two things:

  • it's a very small company and their price is so low that I wonder how long they'll be able to keep it up
  • it's based in the US
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