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• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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

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  • madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 xxxx@proton.com? Or something longer?

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    • ours@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Close, it’s proton.me

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      • OminousOrange@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Or @pm.me, even shorter

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    • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 bark provider down the line to it’s super simple

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• milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Pohl@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • teichflamme@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • Pohl@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • Patch@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can start one on a cloud hosting service tomorrow, and then if at some point you want to move to “on premises” hosting (as in, a Raspberry Pi in your basement) then you can migrate over easily enough. That’s the whole point of self-hosting; all of the data is yours to manipulate and move around as much as you like.

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      • teichflamme@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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