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this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
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Oh! another lavabit victim in the wild. I signed up with em because i just wanted basic security and privacy for a new email account and then poof gone. To top it off, my next email provider had some issues and i lost that account too :(
Now I'm about ready to rant a post about how we down actually control our own email accounts and therefor don't control our lemmy accounts. I'm a big boy and can handle passwords and account control myself without a guarantor!
I am aware about bots and fake account stuff and see the need for better verification, but email is not a valid way to do it.
I miss Lavabit because of how light it ran for an ecrypted service. When I tried Proton it seems more bloated, has too much code and dependencies.
The only way to control your emails is buy a domain and run your own physical server that you maintain the software running on mail server, as in self hosting.
I don't remember a whole lot about lavabit other than how rough it was to lose access.
I'd consider my own email service, but most places that have problems with user accounts will consider a self hosted domain as invalid. :(
Lavabit was smooth, I was using email all the time, but that was before messenging. Lavabit was more text and not so much icons and graphics, it was a well run system. The webmail did not have as many options and services as ProtonMail.
Such a well oiled machine, I still miss using Lavabit email service, 10 years later