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Proton users cancel subscriptions following CEO Andy Yen’s “loser thinking” remarks (cybernews.com)
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[–] 10 points 6 days ago (11 children)

I would love to chat this through with you. I have some domains but honestly, Iʻve been told so many times to not roll my own..

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  • [–] 48 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Do not run your own email server - highly recommend using your own domain though. Use a provider that lets you BYO your domain. Just make sure you get your MX records correct with your DNS provider, most email providers have documentation for this.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    The hard thing about email is getting all your contacts to use your he address, it is not migrating your email history. So owing the domain is the most important thing you can do.

    You do not have to own your email server, if you have the domain you can go wherever.

    You do then have to defend your domain name, which means making sure it will not expire and is locked.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago

    One thing on anyone wondering for migrating mail history, Thunderbird works fine for this, Outlook actually also does is it, I want to say a bit better. You don't have to regularly use Outlook, but if you map both the old and new account you can drag and drop mail between them and it just works.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago (6 children)

    Likewise. I never plan to host my own email server. You can bring your own domain to Proton, at least.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 days ago (5 children)

    ngl, I feel very burried by the effort to "de-google". Like, Iʻm close, very close, and email is like the last thing to do (along with cloud backup).

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    I started with cloud backup, it's going reasonably. I'm using something called Jottacloud which so far has been solid for me and has a lot of different types of backups. Migrated some-odd 25000 photos, slowly getting through the rest of my stuff on google drive. Soon I'll be below the 15g and switch to free it'll be great then I can work on the rest of degoogling

    It takes so much work and feels impossible the entire time especially while all the rest of life keeps happening. One step at a time I guess

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    It's very simple. Buy your domain for the next ten years for under $200. Then find an email provider where you can bring your own domain. Namecheap has always been good to me. Maybe also Hetzner in Germany?

    Hetzner provides email with their cheapest webhosting package at €1.60 a month.
    Namecheap is a little more pricey than I expected. You pay $89.28/2 years with a promo code - Renews for $143.76/2 years

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    As others say, buy a domain so it's easier in the future.

    But one thing what helped me was relay email addresses. Whether that's Addy, Simplelogin (now owned by proton so probably not), Firefox Relay, or another. When you sign up to shit, buy something, etc, use one of these email addresses. When you eventually move to your new email address, you can cutover all those accounts to the new one by changing the settings for where it forwards email to.

    You can also use your own domain with a catchall and make up your own whatever@yourdomain if you're ready for that.

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