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Proton or Tuta? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 week ago by purplenimblefrog404@lemmy.zip to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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So, I've been de-googling, and moved my email and calendar to Proton, and I've been using their VPN for a while as well. I really like it, and it works extremely well for me.

But I am slightly annoyed by Proton's choice to stop posting to Mastodon, and their CEO's Trump comments. And I do like Tuta's support for the Fediverse, and their better open-source implementation. But I'm wondering if it's worth it to bother switching again. I tried making a ones month payment to try out both, and my card doesn't want to pay for Tuta (It's finicky about stuff outside the US).

So would it be better to just stick with Proton? Or try to manage to go over to Tuta?

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[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I did a lot of analysis paralysis and comparisons when I was looking for a very low cost provider that works with my own domain so I can get off Gmail and avoid future vendor lock-in. I wanted 100% standards compliant email hosting that will work perfectly with an actual, old-school email client workflow, plus some sort of web client I can fall back on if needed.

I also wanted EU or Canadian hosting and a non-US corp I'm sending my money to, plus lots of online indication they have been reliable for many years and have generally very good community reviews. I don't actually see the value in the provider-based encryption of Proton/Tuta and think it creates a false sense of security because there is basically no reasonable threat model where their system seems to actually protect you - okay, come at me ;)

In the end, it was down to Runbox and Migadu. Both are 20-ish bucks a year with my custom domain and satisfy all my requirements. Migadu seemed very good, and comes with more storage space, but I prefer to migrate my archived mail off the mail server over time anyway.

Runbox has a really slick web client, doesn't have the silly-low 20-email-a-day sending limit, and the clincher for me was that I can add secondary accounts on my domain for $8 a year! I may actually make some accounts for family on my domain at that price. I switched the domain over to Runbox a few months back, and regret all the time I procrastinated doing it.