Hello everyone,

I am very new and recently have decided to move away our growing home/work network away from Google and also increase our digital security. I got recommended to try Proton as it is (as I understand) a full suite of feature we would use (be it mail, productivity apps, vpn, authenticator, cloud) but seeing some of the reactions here, I am concerned.

Are there any really grave concerns about Proton or any substantial flaws I should be aware of as a new user? I also got some mixed reviews about unstable gaming sessions (that would be a home disaster for the kids hehe) as it disconnects but I suppose that is a problem of the free limited VPN connecting to free servers.

Thank you in advance for any input.

EDIT: Thank you again very much to all of you for your time and insight <3 I will investigate all the suggestions/experience and slowly work my way to a better workframe. Again - thank you!

  • Bonje@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’m also in the process of migrating away. Many reasons. Mainly that fastmail offers me a better experience. And I get simple website hosting and custom domains out of it. I’ve replaced pass with 1Password and will switch to mulvad once my proton subscription expires.

    My drive hosting I’ve migrated to a copyparty container on tailnet. Cloud editing and such is solved by proxy as copyparty supports WebDAV so I can just edit files with onlyoffice or the like. Even works for obsidian and Todo list syncing.

    VPN and pass is probably protons best offering. Everything else always feels half baked.

    If you genuinely care about digital security, self host. No tech company will ever solve it. I’ve minimized my dependencies to fastmail (mail, calendar, webhost), desec (DNS), codeberg, 1password, and tailscale. YouTube is also unavailable as it’s an insane trove of knowledge. Also bit the bullet and bought a kagi subscription and it feels nice to find things on the internet again.

    Best of luck in your journey.