Post by @_elena@mastodon.social

2026-10-30 15:09 UTC

I'm devastated to hear that #Proton '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@mastodon.social 2026-10-30 15:13

My new approach vis-à-vis transitioning away from #Proton (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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@woo@fosstodon.org 2026-10-30 15:21

@_elena@mastodon.social That's in line with a good principle of IT service management: "only 'trust' partners if you can escape from them". That sounds so much better than the equivalent, "don't trust anyone!".

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@jasperbuma@mstdn.social 2026-10-30 18:05

@_elena@mastodon.social Yeah, why can’t we have nice things? Or at least companies with a moral compass. 😐 Related to your post, what do you do with hide-my-e-mail aliases? Because I use those instead of +aliases for al sorts of things like shopping and newsletters.

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@dylenar@mastodon.social 2026-10-30 15:17

i felt split between proton and tuta. I guess i made the right choice to go with tuta (for now at least)

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