What it's like to get locked out of Google indefinitely
“It's just one reason why it's so important that we fund and develop human-scale small tech as an alternative to the stranglehold of big tech on our lives." – some guy who goes on about this stuff a bit
@aral well geeze! I've already been working to migrate to self-hosted services in place of Google's offerings, but I hadn't realized I should be migrating my accounts away from my Gmail. Thanks for the wake-up call!
@trevormeier@kd0bpv I don’t consider email to be private to start with. It’s a postcard. I’d still rather it wasn’t mined six ways to Sunday if possible :)
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@kd0bpv Check out FastMail (what we use) or Hey. There are also encrypted alternatives like @Tutanota