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Anything, so long as your e-mail address is on a domain name you own and you back up your inbox via IMAP. If both of those are in place, you're not really depen

Anything, so long as your e-mail address is on a domain name you own and you back up your inbox via IMAP. If both of those are in place, you're not really dependent on your mail provider at all, because you can switch just by changing a DNS record. If you lose the use of an e-mail address on someone else's domain, then you've got a serious problem.

snerbles 9y ago
This works until a registrar revokes your domain name.
- Spivak 9y ago
  It's turtles all the way down at this point. The reality is that you can't get content on the internet without the approval of at least a few entities. If/Until the culture changes the best practical advice is to make sure that those few entities are distanced from your message that they won't be pressured to take it down.
  - AstralStorm 9y ago
    Well, nobody can ban a hidden website yet (.onion or .i2p). However barrier of entry there is still a bit high and they're still vulnerable to attacks, hosts don't want anything to do with them either.
protomyth 9y ago
Wait until google bans your domain. I’ve recently found out how much of the internet’s mail is hosted on gmail because of one very problematic user.
pvdebbe 9y ago
Exactly. IMAP is IMAP is IMAP, anything goes. Only if you crave for great web UIs then things narrow down to Fastmail/Gmail. Although, Gmail has been gone to crap, UI-wise for me. The process of writing plain-text emails has turned so cumbersome and the UI occasionally stops retrieving new mail to show. Too bad I'm still in love with Gmail labels: they act as TODO entries for me. IMAP folders won't replicate this behavior because the message can't be foldered _and_ remain in Inbox but I guess I can manage. We have a Finnish, for-Finns-only nonprofit community that hosts email, ssh, www, you name it that I subscribed to for €40/y and I'm planning to move all of my gmail business over there. It's easy because I've had my domain for years now and it has been redirecting mail to my gmail. And I already moved my github pages over. (Github is also having fits for wrongthinkers.)

snerbles 9y ago

This works until a registrar revokes your domain name.

Spivak 9y ago
It's turtles all the way down at this point. The reality is that you can't get content on the internet without the approval of at least a few entities. If/Until the culture changes the best practical advice is to make sure that those few entities are distanced from your message that they won't be pressured to take it down.
- AstralStorm 9y ago
  Well, nobody can ban a hidden website yet (.onion or .i2p). However barrier of entry there is still a bit high and they're still vulnerable to attacks, hosts don't want anything to do with them either.

protomyth 9y ago

Wait until google bans your domain. I’ve recently found out how much of the internet’s mail is hosted on gmail because of one very problematic user.

pvdebbe 9y ago

Exactly. IMAP is IMAP is IMAP, anything goes. Only if you crave for great web UIs then things narrow down to Fastmail/Gmail. Although, Gmail has been gone to crap, UI-wise for me. The process of writing plain-text emails has turned so cumbersome and the UI occasionally stops retrieving new mail to show. Too bad I'm still in love with Gmail labels: they act as TODO entries for me. IMAP folders won't replicate this behavior because the message can't be foldered _and_ remain in Inbox but I guess I can manage. We have a Finnish, for-Finns-only nonprofit community that hosts email, ssh, www, you name it that I subscribed to for €40/y and I'm planning to move all of my gmail business over there. It's easy because I've had my domain for years now and it has been redirecting mail to my gmail. And I already moved my github pages over. (Github is also having fits for wrongthinkers.)