Anything better?

  • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee
    4·
    57 minutes ago

    Perhaps an indirect answer, but I’m using a duck.com forwarder whenever i need to give any address, these days. On top of tracker filtering and random alias generator, once i change addresses I’ll only have to update the forwarders destination.

  • ray@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    3 hours ago

    If you really wanna get started with your own domain I highly recommend just getting https://purelymail.com/ setup for the hosting provider. It’s going to be way cheaper than just about anything and you pay for what you use. I’ve been on it for a few years and never had a problem.

  • Yaky@slrpnk.netEnglish
    11·
    6 hours ago

    Mailbox.org

    Mailbox Standard compared to ProtonMail Plus:

    • Cheaper (€30/yr vs ~€50/yr; if you don’t need custom domains, €1/mo)
    • More aliases (25 on mailbox, 50 on own domain. Proton has 10 TOTAL - why custom domain aliases are counted against Proton ones does not make sense to me.)
    • Support for any number of custom domains AFAICT (Proton Plus supports only one)
    • Trial account is not allowed to send emails, so fewer issues with services blacklisting proton.me and protonmail.com for spam (hasn’t happened to me, but I have heard of some cases)
    • Can use a regular email client (security tradeoff for E2EE messages - but there already were plenty of discussions on whether E2EE has benefits, especially sending mail to other services)
  • Perry@lemy.lol
    241·
    11 hours ago

    disroot and autistici have been providing decentralised communication services (like email) free of cost for many years. They are both run by activists and survive on donations, and they don’t spy on you or get any money from your data. Also they run freedom-respecting software, so all their code is publicly auditable.

  • [email protected]@sh.itjust.works
    411·
    12 hours ago

    Buying your own domain.
    You can then use whatever provider, or host your email service… but at least you don’t need to change addresses when switching anymore.

    • thirdBreakfast@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      I started doing this, maybe 15 years ago, but if I look through my spam folder now, most of it is to the email address I used before I began using unique addresses (the rest is to random addresses in my domains that I’ve never used).

      My hypotheses from that are that

      • there is probably less ‘selling of email lists’ going on than we think
      • I’m less interested in dubious internet sites than I used to be
      • or (most likely) these days, your internet thing has to be offering me some real value if I’m going to consciously give you any of my data.
      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        9·
        7 hours ago

        If your mail server supports aliases, you can make one for each site you sign up for. Then if you start getting a bunch of spam, you can delete the alias and you will know which site sold your information.

          • [email protected]@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            4 hours ago

            Yes and no… say if you gave the email address [email protected] when signin up and you start receiving garbage on it, you just delete the alias and move on.
            The trick is that you can have several aliases go into the same inbox so you only have to check one place, but each thing is given its own IP making it easier to identify and filter culprits.

            • Sgarcnl@lemmy.world
              1·
              3 hours ago

              I suppose you mean IP in the allegorical sense in terms of ip filtering to email filtering.

              Its an interesting thought!

          • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            You know not to trust that site with any more information. Once the alias is deleted, anything sent to it will result in a delivery failure and you won’t get any more spam from anyone they sold that address to.

  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
    9·
    9 hours ago

    I’m actually busy setting up my own mail server. On my own infrastructure, using public static IPs etc. I’m done with all these other mail providers. I’m going back to the start.

  • Player2@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    10 hours ago

    How about Tuta mail with a custom domain? They have unlimited custom domain addresses which is pretty nice

      • irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        322·
        12 hours ago

        But the shithead exec is supportive of fascists which means privacy is secondary to the desires of the current regime. That’s just a standard part of fascism. And if the current regime is allowing untested backdoor code to be inserted in the Treasury department and NASA and the CDC and most major social media to strip out protections for people they don’t like, climate change, etc. Just imagine what someone who actually supports them ideologically would be willing to do.

          • irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            3·
            4 hours ago

            I distance myself from companies run by people who say or explicitly support people who say that I don’t or shouldn’t exist. There are a few other things that make me distance myself from companies, but that one is a pretty hard line. (I’m gender “non-compliant” and on the Autism spectrum among other things that have been explicitly said don’t exist, shouldn’t exist, or need to be “cured”). Otherwise, I try to distance myself from any companies who explicitly collect and sell my information and other things that I find problematic, but that’s not always possible.

          • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
            19·
            11 hours ago

            People on all social media really can’t seem to understand that the choices aren’t exclusively “everything has a perfect open source, non-profit utopia” and “fuck it, everyone is corrupt so it doesn’t matter what service you use.”

            You are able to do what you can, where you can, to mitigate risks and try your best not to support fascists. Especially when there are a dozen alternatives.

            Then again, maybe people are just arguing in bad faith.