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[–] 116 points 5 days ago (15 children)

So if I'm reading this right, Proton is re-interviewing their entire staff, focusing on how they've integrated AI into their workflow, and if they aren't using AI as much as management wants they're likely to lose their jobs?

That is extremely disappointing.

Posteo is suddenly looking very shiny.

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  • [–] 39 points 5 days ago (8 children)

    Tuta is good. Waiting on their drive.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    Tuta cancelled my free account because their automated system detected fraud. This occurred after 24 hours of updating my contacts within Tuta and signing up for some services. I appealed and they only apologized for the inconvenience but kept the account closed.

    Other people have posted similar stories but after a YEAR of use their email randomly because inaccessible. So Tuta isn't a viable alternative for me as a Proton user.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    Damn, second negative response. I guess I am leaving them but I just do t want proton - they give me the ick of wannabe big tech.

    I just want a drive, calendar and email that is private.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Posteo seems like the only good option there... Sadly they don't allow custom domains because of some hand-wavy "privacy" crap that boils down mostly to vendor lock-in like tuta.

    There is a new belgian co-op company Nubo trying to break into the market, but they are tiny and running a nextcloud instance on-prem for storage. Performance is likely to not be great.

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago (1 child)

    vendor lock-in like tuta.

    Higher tiers allow custom-domains.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago

    No IMAP, doesn't support open standards, proprietary encryption, no compatability with 3rd party apps/mail clients. You get forced to use their app and have none of your mails locally. Also, since their encryption is proprietary, they only support password less encryption between tuta users, so 99% of users will only ever have encrypted mail with the tuta advertisements/announcement (though they market the "encrypted" angle extremely hard.

    Not to mention all of their apps are exclusively web and electron and perform badly with a very very barebones user interface and options. Also the search is pretty bad. All things that would be fixed if they support open standards. I really dislike using their apps and interface with my account.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    I've been using Startmail for a while now. I'm not sure if it has a drive function because I never looked for that, but it does let you create an unlimited number of semipermanent and temporary 'alias' email addresses, and you can use a custom domain, if you set one up

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  • [–] 6 points 4 days ago

    Give it 5 years and that shiny will ware off. That's the damn problem. Nothing last forever and everything goes to shit eventually.

    At some point you just gotta settle for the devil you know.

    If you still have the energy to most posteo is fantastic from what I have heard tho.

    I'm just tired man, I just want to stop having to think about politics in my fucking email.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    Does posteo support custom domains yet?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    No and they don't plan on it, as far as I know.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Ok yeah, and I understand why that is. I just need a custom domain or I'd be right there.

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