I feel like a version of this guide gets reposted weekly, but it’s always out of date.
u/theFallenWalnut over on that other site updates these regularly.
They also now link to !purchasewithpurpose@lemmy.world but I don’t see anything posted there. Maybe a better place to start reposting these
I personally wouldn’t recommend proton mail https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/
I love protonmail. I will keep on using protonmail. No matter how many times people bring this up I will continue using it. I do not care about politics on the other side of the globe, and I’m not jobless enough to censure everything I use because of my political opinions, or the opinions of those who create the products I use. The Lemmy community has an insane tendency to bring up events that may be deemed as a “bad move” in order to completely blacklist it for moral grandstanding. It’s happened to Hyprland, Ladybird, Protonmail, Brave and so many other pieces of software that are good on their own, but irrelevant and misconstrued information is somehow more important than the software itself. I guarantee that if you apply this logic to everything you use, you would be forced to revert to a hunter gatherer because nobody can fully agree with anyone else.
Volkswagen and Ford had people running the company who supported Nazis, Linux has code from maintainers from Russia, almost all gadgets on this planet have cobalt from slave mines in the Congo. But nobody goes around saying that you can’t drive cars, or use Linux, or use a phone, because truthfully you don’t believe in this logic, you are just using it in order to claim moral superiority and get upvotes. My computer will continue running Hyprland, I will continue supporting Ladybird, I will continue using Protonmail and I will continue to push back against these attitudes hellbent on distorting everything that makes FOSS and adjacent services so good.
Just be thankful that I’m not running gmail.
If you don’t care about America’s decline into fascism, why are you even in this community? Why not just continue happily using Google products and other American tech?
But honestly, “I do not care about politics on the other side of the globe, and I’m not jobless enough to censure everything” is such an incredibly shitty entitled attitude to have. You should care. Not caring is not something to proudly trumpet out to the world. It makes you look selfish and wilfully ignorant.
Whether you believe certain specific responses to any given issue are actually productive and worth the trade-off is an entirely separate matter. If you’re gonna continue using Proton because you can’t find anything as good as it to switch to, or because you don’t think the CEO’s comments were bad enough to warrant cancellation, or even that the switching cost would be too high relative to how much impact it would have, I wouldn’t blame you. There are certainly American products that I continue to use because the benefit they provide me outweighs how much impact I think switching could have.
But a blanket statement that you don’t care about the most powerful country in the world losing all semblance of rule of law? Jesus fucking Christ dude. Could you show a little humanity?
Also, the politics of the current world empire will affect us all, no matter if you live in Mali, Malta or Malaysia.
I live in Germany and we are also currently sliding into authorianizm. The US politics defintly play a role as catalyzator.
What a strawman. There are many reasons to not use Google products that have nothing to do with Google being in the USA.
No problem if you like proton mail. I just want people to be aware of possible issues to make inform choices when they choose services.
I’m am too exhausted to switch at this point. But if they start taking an active roll in funding the Nazis I may have to reconsider.
I get what you’re saying but putting “Volkswagen had actual Nazis” and “some Linux coders are from Russia, the largest country in the world” next to each other reads a bit funny lol
This!