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.
Just curious, do you worry that wearing a mask in public to protect yourself might be construed as unprofessional to these same "corporate types?"
If I'm being uncharitable, I don't think you're curious at all and are drawing a false equivalency between two completely different things to make what I said about a poorly picked software name seem more egregious and like my primary concern in all parts of life is how others perceive me over what is best for myself and others.
If I'm being charitable and/or misinterpreting, perhaps you mean that nobody should care what those people think in any circumstance because giving into their negative perceptions sometimes means giving into harmful behavior such as not masking or using more private/secure software due to its poorly picked name.
If Tuta was the only other company in the world, I'd settle for them no problem. And while I do mask in public, that doesn't mean that people staring at me isn't uncomfortable and anxiety inducing.
I think you understood the point I'm getting at, which, to your credit, you delivered more eloquently in your second paragraph than I've managed to do so in any of my comments in this thread.
Right on. Sorry for jumping the gun. Had too many instances on Lemmy of people inferring things I didn't mean.
All good, no need to apologize. You have a valid concern, and I agree these examples aren't the same, but IMO only by degrees of magnitude. I guess I'm just over giving a damn what others think about this stuff. Let me say sorry for coming off so prickly.