I’ve switched email providers a few times, but I bought a custom domain and use that as my email address. Which makes switching providers easy. I’m sure I don’t need to mention that in a Privacy community, but figured I would anyway.

I went from an @gmail, to @proton (then bought the domain), then switched to Fastmail with same domain.

Tuta for mail

Mullvad for VPN

Logseq for notes

Keepass for passwords

Kraken is pretty good for wallets as far as I’m concerned (?)

Obsidian is proprietary. It can go fuck itself.

I’ve been using mailbox.org for a few years now and I love it.

the web client is good, and it was easy to set up on my phone alongside my other accounts.

it costs money (something like €3/year), but it’s worth it.

plus, it’s still relatively new, so if you suffer from Generic White Guy Name™ like I do, you can finally have a username/email address that’s not full of numbers.

You could check posteo.de for email services, I didn’t have any issues with them since I opened the account about a year ago.

Edit: addition

I’d choose KeepasXC over Bitwarden since it has a built in 2fa which is convenient to.use and made me have much more 2fa configured over less critical services. Most critical services I have 2fa for are separated in a different 2fa method Aegis. Yubikeys and such are top level of course but they require a bit more responsibility in usage.

Tuta for email perhaps?

Windscribe has been good to me as a VPN.

Pretty funny to suggest anti-open-source Obsidian in a privacy subreddit

Has anyone unlinked their SimpleLogin account from Proton? I see its an option, but curious what will happen. I was a subscriber seperately prior to Proton but linked them up later. This will be the harder thing to migrate so if I can keep just simpleLogin going for a while longer. So many aliases :(

I would maybe hold off on choosing Bitwarden. Around the time they raised their pricing they started getting venture capitalist money so the enshittification there may be coming. As far as alternatives, the only other one I’ve used besides Proton is KeePass which could be make or break depending on how you setup the vault, I’d probably save it in something pCloud so you aren’t screwed should something happen to your server, but YMMV.

Skip bitwarden.

I’m enjoying vacation totally out of the loop here, what Proton did? Fascism or fascism?

The primary service that we all need to de-google (or de-proton in this case) is email. The trouble is, the available email services all seem to limit you to 1 user and a few aliases, unless you want to pay a lot more. This kinda makes sense if you are using the proton domain name, they have name space limits and don’t want to become a spam source. However, if you bring your own domain name the breakdown of users and aliases is essentially irrelevant to the cost, and it should only be based on storage and transmit limits. I should be able to have as many user accounts and aliases as I like. This is what I get from MXRoute, and what makes it impossible for my to leave them even though they are mostly US based. I can’t find a solid replacement service that isn’t ripping us off with unnecessary limitations.

In case anyone suggests it, hosting your own email server is a very risky business, and best left to someone else.

What about simplelogin 😟 I had to subscribe to keep my precious aliases.

Bitwarden is getting worse btw unless you’re running it yourself