The Case Against Gmail (2020)

Uuuugh that reminds me that one of these days I’m gonna have to set aside the four or so hours it’ll take to get most of my important things pointing at my owned-domain email address, so I don’t lose everything if Google’s ban hammer automatically decides the almost-nothing I do on any Google site violates policy and I lose it.

We need a moved-permanently redirect for emails :-/

As a (paying) Migadu customer, I’d happily recommend them. No fuss, no muss. Just e-mail.

> We believe, any entity having access to so much personal information is a great risk to world peace, freedom and democracy.

I often seen privacy advocates make sweeping statements like this, but I have a hard time understanding their concerns because I haven't really gotten an answer as to how they see it happening.

EDIT: Also to be clear, I think it is completely valid to object to data collection on moral / ethical grounds alone. And the fact that even if you merely send an email to a gmail account means your data will be tracked is a violation of that choice. However I think claims that this is in turn a great threat to democracy are often used as a kugel to convince other people that they are wrong for not sharing those moral / ethical objections.

Been paying for Migadu for a few years now. No complaints, love it.

I'd always used my own domain so I could switch providers without hassle, but then... I transitioned my gender, and changed my primary domain as part of that.

The thing that worked for me was making a big spreadsheet, working through it, and adding a label to messages still going to my old domain to catch stragglers.

Hopefully the last time I'll ever have to do this.