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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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[–] [S] 2 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

this was my take after the last drama with the CEO but this was enough for me to not want to give them money anymore.

I may continue to use one of their free services like the authenticator though since I don't love my other options and I just don't want to give them money. I'm not even a huge privacy person, just, like you, wanted to leave google behind.

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

    Honestly if there's one service you should be able to self host effortlessly it's email. Email is basically your identity on the internet, but it's so, so hard. Yes yes you can spin up an SMTP server pretty simply, but good luck getting anything past your ISP and into literally anyone else's inbox.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 hours ago (1 child)

    yeah, its pretty crazy how involved it is (at least seemingly to me) to host your own email.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    Then you get the folks coming out of the woodwork going "herp derp it's really simple, you just have to buy a domain, then set up all these records, then you line up all eleven chaos crystals on the altar of despair and chant the forbidden words, then you..."

    I think saying "It's really simple" is actually terrible from a pedagogical point of view. It just makes the learner go "Well I guess I'm dumb because I don't get such a simple concept." I get people saying this are trying to be reassuring, but it should be remembered that pretty much anything is simple if you do it a million times. I'm sure brain surgery is simple for a brain surgeon, but I'm not a brain surgeon. I think it's better to say "This is a long process with a lot of moving parts, but let's take a breath and tackle it one step at a time and we'll get through it. Sorry not ranting at OP, I just see this attitude all the time in IT and it bugs me.

    I career changed into IT years after college, so I was already an adult when I entered my first trembling keystrokes into a blank terminal window. I vividly remember how intimidating it all felt.

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