• pinknoise@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    The term cloud is commonly used for hosting on external data centers accessable via the internet for convenience. I can’t see how having your mail hosted by protonmail is any different, they are “a cloud”. With “does anybody user their services” I wanted to know about people on lemmy, I guess the proper word would be “someone”.

    it’s probably the first choice of people wanting to avoid big companies.

    They have their own data centers so they can’t really be that small. Also there are multiple thousands of e-mail hosting providers.