- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
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- technology@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/technology@piefed.social/p/2533091/proton-to-re-interview-staff-about-ai-to-see-who-gets-to-keep-their-job
I had been planning to move to proton. Definitely won’t be now.
Fastmail? Mailbox.org?
tutanota is good
Edit: I have learned that perhaps they are not.
I moved off of Proton to Mailbox.org maybe 6 months or so ago. No complaints. Much happier tbh.
Because they’re trying to find those idiots that mess up the codebase by using ai, right?
Right?

First mullvad and now proton. Sheeeesh.
So now this is an alternative email thread, right?
Astermail? Fastmail?
Are both also shoving ai down their employees throats and/or guving money to fascists?
Is my only hope hosting and maintaining my own email service?
We’ve known about Proton for way longer then Mullvad. CEO has had TDS for a while now; the AI pivot is like the last 5 degrees of the heelturn. Same with Omarchy and Brave.
Proton has been sketchy for years. Like every 6 months the get dragged for unethical shit but somehow everyone is surprised each time
Posteo is a decent one that friends of mine use
i use posteo but wanted to switch to something else with more aliases but. it works there is no kontroversie… so 1€ per month is good.
What happened with Mullvad?
one of the owners is a fascist
And donated the company’s earnings heavily to pro-fascist movements.
Is my only hope hosting and maintaining my own email service?
Oh boy do I know a “tool” that can help you with that. It’ll guide you through the process of getting started. Or if you want, you can have it’s agents do it for you. /s
“Sign up for free access to this post”.
I’m aware that a link is attached which bypasses this restriction, but if I have to break the law to read the article or alternatively hand over my personal data, then I think it shouldn’t have been shared here in the first place.
Archive.is and its variations sadly also exploited their users to DDoS another website and falsified data; they also refused to comply with data protection regulation in the past, and remove personal data from their websites. Wikipedia banned the service entirely and removed all references.
So, who’s the alternative?
From what I hear Tuta is only barely reputable? Something about false cryptography. Services like mailbox and posteo don’t have a free tier. The offerings overall seem to be so bad that gmail is beginning to look somewhat desirable by this point.
Not that it impacts much in the short term. Until a long-term viable alternative shows up, the best I can do is to continue using Proton’s free tier so that I am at least somewhat a cents / nickels cost to them rather than a profit.
This is so vague we dont even know if it’s a good thing
Its not. Its to fire people who dont vibe code
That’s not what it is, but keep making things up.
Everyone was busy, so I went to the movie alone.
Both can be true. Every “controversy” that Proton has had ended up being a big ol’ nothingburger that was blown way the fuck out of proportion.
The CEO of Proton is Pro-Trump and that’s old news










