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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

internet explorer, yahoo mail, myspace, icq... things change. unfortunately it's mostly due to a huge company having the resources to promote their product to convince people to migrate but still. people can leave old giants.

[–] pietervdvn@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah, and Wikipedia, linux,... have become important as well, without big corpo

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Proton is 5.5% the size of G-mail. 100m vs 1.8b.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i think proton is getting shittified as well but you should make a post listing all these alternatives for different services, rather than peppering them in the comments.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Proton isn't getting worse arguably though the current services need more work like the calendar.