Post by Elena Rossini 🌈

My new approach vis-à-vis transitioning away from #Proton (in a slow way) - cont':

For every new email that comes in that uses one of my Proton email addresses (or aliases), I am making changes, updating the email address for that account (if it's shopping/newsletter/admin) or I am notifying the sender that going forward my default email address will be the one associated to my domain name.

It's a pain, but it's long overdue.

@_elena do you have any links that could work as a gateway to figuring out how to acquire and set up a custom email domain? I've been using the same Gmail address for 20 years and it's the major thing I haven't degoogled yet. I don't want to have to change it more than once, and by the looks of things I won't ever be able to trust any email provider.

@LeoRJorge it's really easy. Just buy a custom domain and then add it to your email provider. There are many video tutorials about how to change DNS settings, step-by-step

@_elena
Are you switching to self-hosted email, or an alias on one of the major providers?

I have been trying to figure out my best options for awhile now.

@TerryHancock I'm just using my domain name as my default email address so I can freely switch providers in just a few clicks (and DNS changes). I am not self-hosting my email, I heard it's like a cartel and I don't want to worry about deliverability rates, etc. Just using my custom domain so I can hop between different providers, that's all

@TerryHancock @_elena I use @doncow on my self hosted cloud server and love it. Also host my nextcloud and website and much of my stack. Anyone interested in help with this please reach out at https//tobiaseigen.org.

@tobias @TerryHancock @_elena @doncow

https://slopscore.ava.pet/repo/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub%2Ecom%2Fmailcow%2Fmailcow%2Ddockerized/master

Mailcow is Ai slop too. The search continues.

@BroBot90001 @tobias @TerryHancock @doncow sadly I think that AI code is pretty much everywhere now (look at Linux). My main problem with Proton is how the C-suite has created a toxic company culture, where legitimate concerns by software engineers are not acknowledged... on the contrary, there is bullying and name calling coming from the CEO. Unacceptable. I do not trust Proton anymore because they give more importance to AI than careful, handwritten code and want speed and scale at all costs

@_elena this is something I need to do (and tbh have been meaning to do) with my Gmail for years... but haven't got round to because of the pain of the transition and difficulty in figuring out where to go.

@smilingdemon using your own domain name as your default email address may take away some of the pain (re: figuring out where to land next) because the transition is pretty much painless