Cross-posting from .ml. Couldn't do it officially because it was posted by a .world user, so isn't visible from Hexbear.
I know this isn't the first strike for Proton either.
Edit: Andy replied on stormfront
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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I've used it for several years and I'm looking to move off of it. Its still better than Gmail, but they made a donation to Bellingcat in the past through a community vote and seek out places for their VPN service where the government "subverts democracy" like Hong Kong. They've always been ran by libertarian techbros.
The only other good alternative seems to be Tuta though and as petty as it is, I'm not going to be giving people an email address that ends in Tuta or Tutamail, especially verbally.
You're really over thinking this if you believe even 10% of the people you interact with give a single fuck about a silly domain name
I care and I don't want to risk other people caring in the same way it would be considered unprofessional by some corporate types to have anything other than firstnamelastname@whatever as your address
They should have chosen a better name.
Yeah, words like Google were once silly too, but things like Floorp browser are absolutely affected by their name as far as adoption and perception.
Alright then, you do you... I just spell it out real quick, takes about 5 seconds, and if they laugh it's a great icebreaker to take another 5 seconds to plant a little seed in their head about taking back control of our digital lives. Some people are really receptive to this.