Edit: I made a mistake, I meant to add Mailfence instead of Fastmail, but forgot to update both the icon and text

Hey everyone, here's a follow up to my previous post, I tried to summarize all your suggestions and these are the options I have for the main Proton products I've been using.

I removed Bitwarden based on your feedback (basically they're enshittifying).

I'm not including Tuta, because I dislike their UX/UI, also they seem to not apply their LLM policy to their own devs.

I'm not including Mullvlad, because of one of the founder's donation to a far right political party in Sweden, said founder has a blog post to justify this, which links to another blog post where he claims to be a libertarian anarchist which is just another word for Ancaps which is a dealbreaker for me.

A lot of people recommended using one's own domain for email stuff, I forgot to mention I do have a custom domain, which will make migrating a lot easier indeed. Just need to update my accounts credentials.

Let me know what you think!

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[–] 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

They still have free accounts. I tried to sign up, to do so I needed to enter a backup email. I used a simplelogin one and now I'm blocked and have to wait 24 hours to try again 🤦

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Interesting! I tried creating a new account with my mailfence email and it just told me no. There was a point where I experienced places balking at me using that domain, perhaps they have had to tighten up registration.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago

    Oh also it kept telling me my selected username was invalid, while giving no indication as to why. In the end I think it was because it had the word "host" in it (actually, it was "ghost", but apparently they don't allow "host").

    I've tried again with a different recovery email and it still said no, please contact support. But I couldn't find a link to contact support, only a knowledgebase, so I'm probably going to go with mailbox.org instead. I have created a trial account there without issue.

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