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astrid<p>Canceling my subscription with <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Proton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Proton</span></a> and could use some advice on alternatives. I looked at <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Startmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Startmail</span></a> and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Tuta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tuta</span></a> but I've been using Proton for <a href="https://mas.to/tags/CloudStorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CloudStorage</span></a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Calendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Calendar</span></a>, and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Aliases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aliases</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/AskFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AskFedi</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Encryption</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Computers</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ProtonMail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtonMail</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Computers</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Security</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/VPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VPN</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a></p>
Mark Heftler<p>2025 kicks off with A Modest Divestment, a deliberate effort to reduce my reliance on US-based big tech. Canceling 365, switching to <a href="https://esq.social/tags/Startmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Startmail</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://esq.social/tags/Internxt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Internxt</span></a>, and exploring <a href="https://esq.social/tags/OnlyOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnlyOffice</span></a>. Saying goodbye to <a href="https://esq.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> and tightening up <a href="https://esq.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> protections. Here's to a secure, private, and independent year ahead.</p><p><a href="https://copingalgorithms.com/posts/a-modest-divestment" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">copingalgorithms.com/posts/a-m</span><span class="invisible">odest-divestment</span></a></p><p><a href="https://esq.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://esq.social/tags/protonmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protonmail</span></a> <a href="https://esq.social/tags/microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://esq.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://esq.social/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigtech</span></a></p>
trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:<p>The <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Murena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Murena</span></a> week long email outage has made me seriously regret throwing in so many of my eggs into their basket.</p><p>I've been spending a bit of effort in the past couple days, of switching my <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Fairphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fairphone</span></a> over to <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/CalyxOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CalyxOS</span></a>, and spinning up a VPS w/ <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Yunohost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yunohost</span></a> to host my own <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Nextcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nextcloud</span></a>, and then just park <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/startmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>startmail</span></a>'s email service under a domain I control. </p><p>Whenever Murena gets around to getting their Web UI back up, ill be canceling my paid account over there.</p><p>I could forgive the outage, but the communication and sliding ETAs havent't really matched the lax standards of IT organizations ive been ashamed to work for, before. It's ridiculous. Hard to trust them, or keep trusting them.</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/eOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eOS</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/eFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eFoundation</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/MyDataIsMyData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MyDataIsMyData</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/degoogle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>degoogle</span></a></p>