Been really happy with Protonmail so far. Very sleek online interface, and has and easy transfer from gmail into Protonmail.
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2024
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Anti-Corporate Movement
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This community is the first one on lemmy of its kind. It sits between the idea of anarchism/anti-capitalism and left leaning economic policy.
Our goal is to make people aware of the dangers of corporate control, its influence on governments and people as well as the small but steady abrasion of empathy around the world indirectly caused by it.
Current topics this includes but is not limited to:
- Meta's entry into the fediverse
- Game companies putting gambling mechanics in childrens games
- Embracer groups buyout and closing of smaller game studios
- IP trolls destroying small companies and keeping progress back for profit
Feel free to debate this but beware, corporate rhetoric is not welcome here. If you have arguments, bring them on. If its rhetoric trying to defend the evil actions of corporations, we will know and you will go.
Our declared goal so far is to have all companies and individuals worldwide capped at 999 mil USD in all assets, including ownership of other companies, sister companies and marital assets. The reason for this is that companies (and individuals) are not supposed to resemble small(?) countries with a single leader(-board) and shareholder primacy. Thats why we feel like they must be kept in check indefinitely.
But companies will just wander off The argument that large companies will just wander off is valid, which we embrace. We dont need microsoft, apple, google, amazon and other trillion dollar companies. There are small competitors being kept small and driven into brankruptcy by anti competitive behavior of these giants or simply bought up and closed. If starbucks left tomorrow, we would not have an issue with this.
But then we have x little microsofts that all belong to the same person(s) If in fact nobody was allowed to accumulate more than 999 mil in assets, they would not be able to own all these. And like defending agains burglary, it is not about complete defence but time and effort. You only have to keep the thief occupied long enough for them to be caught, give up or make a mistake.
But these giants have tons of IP which would then limit our growth Thats another topic we must touch on. We will (only this one time) take a page out of russias playbook and demand that IP of non complying companies (assets over 999 mil USD) will be declared invalid, which opens them up to be copied.
But then they will "live" in one country that doesnt accept this Correct, and they should be taken into custody the moment they enter the airspace of a country that supports this act.
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Awesome! Will check it out.
Make sure your ublock skills are up to snuff, it's full of ads
what? sailfish? can you elaborate?
You will constantly be hounded to upgrade with full page ads when you log in
Urgh! Thats pretty bad.
Nothing is free to operate? Like Protonmail is a very good service, what don’t you want to pay for what you use lol
those are two completely different things mate. One is paying for something and the other is getting blasted with ads. Either make it paid or make it free but dont make a free version that blasts me with ads. Thats lacking respect imo.
I got shut down big time when I recently suggested companies pay for open source projects with a tiny percentage of their revenue so customers who dont actually generate revenue with foss and provide valuable testing dont have to.
+1
Chiming in to say that hosting your own email server is a nightmare, please just find a service and pay them.
I heard that. Its why I asked. Self hosting is no problem for me, more like finding good alternatives in this case. Have you tried it?
I think you tend to get flagged as spam from Gmail and the like very easily, making useless
Thats what I heard as well. Thanks for chiming in.
True. It's basically impossible to fully self host nowadays. You can host for your local users and use a/your provider to route and possibly act as your MX if you really want to go that way. In that case most hosting providers that let you edit the DNS files will do.
I have. My main problem wasn’t so much that I was getting flagged as spam, but that the spam filtering on the receiving side was just awful. I also don’t send many emails so it may well be the case that I just happened to not experience that problem.
Understood! Thanks for sharing.
Proton if you don't know how to set up your own email service, your own email service if you do. It's surprisingly easy to get your own email. HostGator even gives you free email services if you buy hosting for a domain. Just register your domain, point the DNS at HostGator, set up emails through cpanel, and use the FairEmail client to access your server. Easy peasy! Absolutely zero prying eyes, you have full control, and you get an apache server node as a bonus.
Thanks for mentioning this! I‘ll check it out.
I like fastmail. I decided to skip on proton (I also just never tried it) because it just seemed too popular. Fastmail also tied into my password manager and is easy to create masked emails. I like them a lot.
Thats awesome! Thanks for sharing.
+1 for Fastmail, love them. The masked email generation changed my life. Very affordable pricing IMO.
My own server.
Ya, I also run my own and use a dedicated IP and my emails regularly get flagged as spam or in some cases blocked entirely.
The email landscape is complicated and constantly changing. Unless you know exactly what you're doing, I honestly don't recommend running your own.
You need to get your email into some big data databases. It's fucking bullshit, but until your address is tracked by all the snooping bullshit companies, a lot of services will reject it. They run checks with services like Informatica to verify if it's a valid email or not, and if they've never seen your address before, they'll mark it as fake. That was the hardest part of using my own email server at the beginning, getting all these asshole spy networks to recognize me.
I have had my dedicated IP and server for 7 years now. It still gets flagged as spam, but not blocked. If I knew it was this annoying, I would have never done all this work.
Have you set up DKIM and SPF? That'll resolve the problem 99% of the time.
I attempted and I don't think I did it correctly. I don't use it as my primary email anymore since I don't do much contracting work anymore.
I've just used HostGator email services set up through cpanel for about 7 years now and the only issues I had were forms not accepting the email addresses at first because they were unknown emails and domains. Maybe consider migrating to a known service to resolve your issues. I don't even pay them for it, it just came free with my shared hosting package which is like $10 per month.
Ahhh, I'm actually running it on my home server. So that could be why it's more difficult.
Awesome! Can you elaborate a bit on your experience because a ton of folks keeps repeating that locally hosted email is a nonstarter. Do you send a lot of emails and do they actually come through?
Unfortunately, mail is a complex subject. Those folks are generally right. I've been doing this awhile, and know what I am doing. My solution will blow the doors off of canned solutions in both performance and lack of false positives. But it is a custom solution and I do not recommend it for most people. I had toyed with the idea of putting a management console on the thing, but for the effort involved, I didn't feel it is worth it these days with barracuda and proxmox mail gateway products out there.
One big item to deal with if you self host these days is to be on IP address space that is not blacklisted by most spam filters. Comcast's non-business IP space, for example. Linode for another. If you are in this situation, you can relay through a third party, but you are then not controlling things end to end.
Another issue now is that many recipient providers are requiring valid dmarc, dkim, and spf records. You will need to have all three properly configured for the domains that you manage.
What you might want to do, though, is perhaps host your own mail security relays that stand in front of your 'ready to go' mail provider of choice. This is much slower than mine, but is what I would use if standing something up for a company these days: https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-mail-gateway/overview
Or if you want to host everything yourself, there are some solutions out there so you no longer need to piece it together. Search for 'self hosted email'. I would still put a mail gateway like proxmox in front of it for your edge security and filtering though.
Thank you very much for elaborating. i might give selfhosting email a go after all. Have a good one.
But what software?
sendmail, mimedefang, spamassassin, dovecot, sieve, radicale
I use both protonmail and tutanota atm. Had good experiences so far tbh! But for those I know that are truly dedicated to the foss lifestyle, most I know either self host their email service or use something like posteo/distroot. Some I know use riseup as well but I think it’s propertiary I think but have a huge emphasis on privacy though and being very anti corporate.
Thank you! This is very helpful. Do you know if they made bad experiences being flagged as spam?
I should think so, though honestly I have not gotten any spam from protonmail/tutanota ever since I switched over from gmail years back and I’ve only gotten emails that’s I’ve signed up to or that I know are relevant to me aka important emails.
Services like gmail survive by spying on your emails in relation to also having ads on their services, hence why you get so many emails and junk you don’t remember signing up on the promotions tab, despite gmail is supposed to be well renowned for “anti-spam” whilst also not being totally private whatsoever cuz of it. It’s all just a cover tbh esp with top free mail providers.
I have been using a mail service included in my webhosting plan. I'm not sure if this is the best solution but it has been working well so far.
Thanks for chiming in. I think its a better solution than google anyway. :)
Been using mailbox.org for the past 2 years, so far so good :)
Thanks for chiming in. I‘m gonna have a look at it.
The points that sold me:
- EU-based (Germany)
- anonymous payment options available (you can mail cash or use monero if this matters to you)
- Caldav for contacts, tasks and calendar
Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
Mail-in-a-box
I like duck mail, it has an easy way of making fake emails for websites