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Useful list of European alternatives to BigTech (proton.me)

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[+] fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev -12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

take all my eggs out of one basket to put them all into another?

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[–] borusa@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

There are plenty of alternatives as stated in the article.

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[+] fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev -6 points 1 year ago

but not for the services they are providing

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[+] huppakee@lemm.ee -7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are there any federated email providers then?

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[–] gnufuu@infosec.pub 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Email is a federated protocol.

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[–] hoppygarden@feddit.org -5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

at the host level yes, but not at the user level

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[–] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

What is that even supposed to mean?

Yes it is, there are different people using email?

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[–] hoppygarden@feddit.org -1 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

What I meant is: you cannot switch a specific email from one provider to another. Only option is for you to change your email address.

Compare that to say mobile phone numbers: there you have the option to keep your number when switching providers.

Portability of email is what's missing.

edit: typo

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[–] brrt@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

You totally can. Get your own domain and combine it with whichever email provider you like.

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[–] hoppygarden@feddit.org 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

right, I forgot to mention this option. Indeed a possibility

it requies some technical knowledge and is not something many people do, probably less than 1%

compare that to phone number portability is available automatically to everyone (perhaps dependent on juristriction)

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[–] brrt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Ok, I agree with that. But it doesn’t work like that for other decentralized solutions either afaik. If you move from one instance in the Fediverse to another you will not retain your username@instance

So what’s the difference for the user?

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[–] hoppygarden@feddit.org -1 points 1 year ago

it works similar, yes.

I just wanted to note that fediverse could be even more useful if it had the portability built in.

ps: for mobile it's called MNP : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_number_portability

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[–] kcweller@feddit.nl 18 points 1 year ago

Email is THE federated system that is widespread in its use. Hosting a mail server at a host you trust or hosting it yourself has always been possible.

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