In an unexpected mask off "secure" email and VPN provider Proton took the stance of siding with the fascist MAGA Reps. Proton's services are no option for me and many others any longer. Let's collect and discuss alternatives (E2E encrypted email and VPN) here ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ‘‡

Always try to provide:

-Server location (jurisdiction)

-Governance

-Integrity/trustworthiness/transparency

-User experience/ease of use (grade 1 to 10, lets take Proton as a benchmark with an 8)

-Pricing and links

If you know alternative setups, feel free to share, too.

#ProtonExodus

Background: https://lemmy.ca/comment/13913116

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[โ€“] 77 points 2 years ago* (3 children)
  1. It isn't misinformation.

  2. Someone like this board member being a traitor to his species isn't covered by "opinion". No normalizing nazis. It's such a low bar. He couldn't clear it.

  3. He blasted his treachery over the public airwaves. His privacy isn't being violated.

This whole comment feels like an exercise in using all the best words to miss the point. We know, as does this probably-lying board member, that Republicans are only going to go more authoritarian, and the only reason they would pretend to care about big tech abuses is to grab the steering wheel from them to commit far worse abuses. No company that gets into bed with traitors is going to become the new center of my digital life.

Tuta for email, syncthing for photos bc I'm not self-hosting, mullvad for VPN.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You have to self host if you use synching

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago

    They probably mean forwardable ports, i.e. have isp-related problems with hosting servers.
    Syncthing doesn't need you to host a server, it can hole-punch right through the worst cgnats.

    Might also be intermittent syncing only when ops machine is running.

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  • [+] -46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sorry but I won't participate in this juvenile trivializing of the word "Nazi". Yes, I know that's become almost a meaningless slur at this point, but personally I just will not take seriously anybody who throws it around like this. Perhaps because I'm European. Perhaps because I studied history. It's not serious.

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  • [โ€“] 58 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Mate they're mainstreaming fascist rhetoric. Over 60% of Republicans now believe in the Great Replacement theory aka White Genocide, which used to be a conspiracy theory on the fringes of white nationalist propaganda just about a decade ago.

    I encourage you to not get hung up on symbolism and instead look to ideology and rhetoric.

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  • [+] -42 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Leaving aside the absurd and juvenile "Nazi" slur ("fascist" is less of a stretch), I disagree with your analysis. I think it's exactly the opposite. I think it's because mainstream politicians have refused to address the reasonable aspects of people's concerns (about immigration, in particular), and because progressive activists have gone off the leash in their wild accusations of racism at the slightest contradiction of their opinions, that we've ended up in this situation of the far right getting into power all over the place.

    Once again: I do not vote for these parties. Anyway, we are now completely offtopic so let's leave it there.

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  • [โ€“] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    So yes they're fascist, but the progressives complained too much about racism, and therefore it's fine to support the fascists?

    IDK what to tell you but your political ideology is privileged garbage. You're more scared of being called racist than of fascism. The kind of "yes ethnic cleansing but please no mean language" attitude. Please get a political education and your priorities straight.

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  • [+] -31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    With your insults and condescension, you're just proving my point.

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  • [โ€“] 30 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Yeah I never doubted you'd have a reason to dismiss being called out like that. Getting your feelings hurt invalidates everything else. I feel like I'm talking to myself from 10 years ago.

    You don't have to take it from me. If you're a student of history, maybe start with Umberto Eco. He knew a thing or two about fascism, I've heard.

    The biggest mistake we can make is to assume it can't happen again.

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  • [โ€“] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's because you're a centrist.

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  • [+] -19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You say it like it's an insult! Actually I usually vote green. And in Europe the greens are really greens, rather than just spoilers who help Bushes and Trumps into power.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago

    I didn't intend it to be directly insulting, but it seems like you're well aware how lemmy leans already and you're willing to double down on centrist stalling points anyway. With no realistic middle choices available, and none cropping up, Americans are a little more than a little tired of centrist talking points.

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