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Options for folks leaving proton who don’t want to self host? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 7 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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For context, I’m in the States.

I already have a Tuta mail account so I figure for mail/calendar/soon-drive I’ll stick to them but what about other services?

Ideally I can try with a free tier before committing. iOS and Android and Linux are the platforms used in my household.

Still looking for:

  • password manager
  • vpn
  • authenticator
  • less important: docs/sheets

I was all in on proton services because it was easy for my family to switch from google and still have all these services in one place but now I’m more open to spreading these services out to more than one provider in case any of them shit the bed so to speak.

Thanks!

edit:

  • probably staying with proton's authenticator
  • I'm sure most here won't agree but my entire household uses firefox on desktop/mobile and my wife and I just decided to use firefox's built in pw manager + sync for pw management. Please understand that convenience is top of mind for us tbh, out lives are too busy to be overly concerned with what to choose here.
  • waiting for tuta drive to start using that but backed up out drives to a couple external drives and will just use that until tuta drive is released.
  • vpn is still tbd
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[–] 11 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I'm super curious about this as well. Can I ask how you find Tuta? They don't have any integration with mail clients or don't support IMAP, right? I've found the Thunderbird integration for Protonmail really helpful, and I use ProtonVPN all day every day Crying

I have heard good things about AirVPN, but I haven't tried it. I use Bitwarden as a password manager and it's convenient and reliable (even possible to self-host if you want, eventually). Bitwarden also supports authenticator TOTP for paid tier (maybe free with self-host?).

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  • [–] 4 points 7 hours ago*

    I don't know about Tuta, but if you're looking for an alternative then Mailbox is awesome. It also takes care of calendar, contacts, drive, basic online office webapps, I think they have a basic video conferencing thing too.

    I think Mullvad comes up repeatedly as one of the best VPNs, but you need to look up otherwise since VPNs sell out and enshitify all the time.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 hours ago

    Yeah, so my needs are super minimal tbh so Tuta does plenty for me.

    No integration with mail clients or IMAP support but they have a linux desktop flatpak or appimage that integrates well for me and an iOS app that also works well for me. I've been using the experimental flatpak on mint cinnamon and it's been working well so far. No major issues.

    I was also using proton vpn a lot but not anymore! I never used mail clients so that isn't a thing I need to worry about luckily, and neither does anyone in my family.

    I'll check out airvpn, so thanks for the rec. I wish bitwarden had free auth but I'm open to just using it as my pw manager.

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