What do you folks use instead of Proton and Google? Ideally I’m looking for:
- Non-profit.
- European-based if possible.
- Paid is fine.
- Low-risk. E.g. unlikely to disappear, unlikely to go bankrupt.
My reason to want non-profit is that it’s the best way to align mine and the provider’s incentives, I think. I’d consider for-profit as well, but it’s best if it’s a non-profit.
So far I like disroot a lot. But they are principled about being unpaid, so if the financial ends don’t meet each other my emails will be in trouble. I’m donating to them, but I have my worries. I’m willing to pay a little if I know that my money will go for a quality service, for expansion of coverage (new users) and for open-source technologies.
Proton and their founder Andy are just a piece of sh*t in terms of upper management, so that’s not worth discussing.
Posteo seems adequate. Tuta feels similar to Posteo with a bit more push for fanciness. Is there something similar but non-profit?
Duh… reading is hard. /s
I think that they are in a good place financially. I seem to remember a page on their site that showed they are above water, although without a terribly big budget. I bought my first domain many months ago, and thought about moving it to disroot, since they do catch-all emails out of the box. But, still going to wait for them to get their disk situation ironed out.
I will say I had a ticket open and reached out to mappeth via xmpp, and it was a positive interaction. So, I’m still leaning towards disroot as a matter of just helping the scrappy little guy.