I’d like to move off from the shackles of the Google menace and transferring my Gmail related accounts over including steam but I’d like some solid advice of any well regarded and better alternatives (including open source if that is possible)

I did search but was unsure of what was best as I did hear some shoddy things about Proton.

Do you know anything that could be the “aegis 2fa” of email providers?

Thank you and have a good day/night.

  • zkfcfbzr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I still thinks his takes were bad and tone-deaf. I get that he liked a certain appointee Trump made that’s relevant to his industry. And, knowing nothing at all about the appointee myself, they may in actuality be a good pick. But he went well beyond praising the appointee, to praising Trump and Republicans in general - albeit for the specific narrow topic of “reigning in big tech”.

    While his takes were arguably valid given recent history (I’d still say not), it was completely tone deaf to the reality of what the present-day Republican party and Trump mean for America, and especially ignorant of the obvious buddying-up big tech has done with Trump in the past few months.

    I think if he narrowly aimed his praise at the appointee herself, without then making sweeping generalities about Republicans vs. Democrats, that nobody here would even be aware of who he is, let alone what he said.

    I do think the internet in general tends to be very reactionary - I don’t think Lemmy is any more reactionary than, say, reddit, but both are very reactionary. Anyone who jumps ship over this guy’s comment will just end up jumping ship again from whatever their new ship is, after that company makes some move they see as imperfect in a few months or years. No company is perfect. Proton is at least great.

      • zkfcfbzr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        You’re right, based on those definitions the word doesn’t mean what I intended. I don’t know what the right word would be. I used it to mean one who overreacts to relatively minor or inconsequential transgressions, taking drastic, often out-of-proportion or only tangentially relevant actions to rectify perceived harms.

        One example would include people ditching the entire company Proton, an entity with a stellar track record of improving the state of privacy on the internet, after a single member of their board made some dipshit comments. Another example might include the general reaction a few months ago when that misleading story about Mozilla and ad tracking was making the rounds. Other more extreme examples would be the passing of the Patriot Act and invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan following 9/11, or the Israeli response to 2023’s attack on them.

    • reksas@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      10 hours ago

      either you try staying ahead or be blindsided when shit hits the fan. Sometimes its nothing but at least you are better prepared if you were right.