Post by @_elena@mastodon.social

2026-10-30 15:13 UTC

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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@pierre_pebble@mastodon.ie 2026-10-30 15:19

@_elena@mastodon.social As a protocol, Email is painfully outdated. It shouldn't be so hard to switch service provider, or to protect ourselves from spams and leaked addresses... Sure we can buy a custom domain and set aliases, but that's beyond the average user 🥲 On that note, members of my family were proudly moving from Google to Proton 😭

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@LeoRJorge@mastodon.social 2026-10-30 15:21

@_elena@mastodon.social do you have any links that could work as a gateway to figuring out how to acquire and set up a custom email domain? I've been using the same Gmail address for 20 years and it's the major thing I haven't degoogled yet. I don't want to have to change it more than once, and by the looks of things I won't ever be able to trust any email provider.

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@mora@mastodon.uno 2026-10-30 15:34

@_elena@mastodon.social «Stop thinking always of how it can be painful, and focus more on how to be faster.”» 😉

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@ryse@mastodon.social 2026-10-30 15:37

@_elena@mastodon.social These changes now will save you a lot of time later. This situation is such a conundrum. My immediate reaction is to leave, because I don't want to indirectly support a company with a CEO that treats its employees this way and ignores the security concerns from the very engineers that built its products. But a company is also so much more than just its CEO, and do you punish the team and abandon the arguably good tools by leaving, when it's really the CEO that needs to go?

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@tobias@social.tobiaseigen.org 2026-10-30 15:58

@_elena@mastodon.social awesome! This sounds like a solid approach. I moved from my Gmail.com email to self hosted on my own domain using mailcow last year and it took about two months before everything flowed through mailcow. It’s a project but very feasible and fully worth it! Still have the gmail for the occasional email that still comes in and to use Google tools like Remote Desktop connection. But everything’s that matters I moved to my digitally sovereign tech stack.

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@Kdude@mastodon.social 2026-10-30 16:43

@_elena@mastodon.social yea, switching e-mail gradually is relatively easy. The next challenge is finding a European VPN provider that works on the common video streaming platforms...

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@smilingdemon@mastodon.art 2026-10-30 16:24

@_elena@mastodon.social this is something I need to do (and tbh have been meaning to do) with my Gmail for years... but haven't got round to because of the pain of the transition and difficulty in figuring out where to go.

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