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Elena Rossini 🌈
@_elena@mastodon.social
6 giorni fa Lingua dichiarata dall’autore: Inglese

The journey of tech empowerment and liberation from tech bros can be a long, bumpy road.

The biggest tech regret of my adult life is that I didn't use a custom domain name as my main email address, so that when things invariably go south, I can simply hop to a new email provider.

The hundred or so email aliases I made with are a real headache right now. Time to clean up my mess.

What am I talking about? This ICYMI: https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/

#enshittification #noai #proton #protonmail

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Elena Rossini 🌈
6 giorni fa Lingua dichiarata dall’autore: Inglese

I'm devastated to hear that 's CEO and CTO are treating their engineers in a terrible way, blindly trusting LLMs and creating a toxic culture where speed and growth trump security.

I'm not ready to make a radical switch yet but some little actions I implemented today could be useful for others, too:

  1. I made my custom domain the DEFAULT email address in ProtonMail
  2. I created aliases w my custom domain for shopping, newsletters, admin, etc.

Hoping this will make a transition smoother

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Elena Rossini 🌈
6 giorni fa Lingua dichiarata dall’autore: Inglese
in risposta a Elena Rossini 🌈

My new approach vis-à-vis transitioning away from (in a slow way) - cont':

For every new email that comes in that uses one of my Proton email addresses (or aliases), I am making changes, updating the email address for that account (if it's shopping/newsletter/admin) or I am notifying the sender that going forward my default email address will be the one associated to my domain name.

It's a pain, but it's long overdue.

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Space Catitude 🚀
6 giorni fa Lingua dichiarata dall’autore: Inglese
in risposta a Elena Rossini 🌈

@_elena@mastodon.social
Are you switching to self-hosted email, or an alias on one of the major providers?

I have been trying to figure out my best options for awhile now.

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Elena Rossini 🌈
6 giorni fa Lingua dichiarata dall’autore: Inglese
in risposta a Space Catitude 🚀

@TerryHancock@realsocial.life I'm just using my domain name as my default email address so I can freely switch providers in just a few clicks (and DNS changes). I am not self-hosting my email, I heard it's like a cartel and I don't want to worry about deliverability rates, etc. Just using my custom domain so I can hop between different providers, that's all

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