Instead of leaving Xitter, they left Mastodon. Proton’s trend is not inspiring confidence and this feels like another step backwards.

  • @ShotDonkeyEnglish
    1•19 hours ago

    Yes, for a reason. You have to register with a name and an address to obtain/buy a custom domain at a third party. Your identity could be traced back via this. This is against their very strict and consistent ‘zero knowledge’ policy.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•17 hours ago

      Hmm I don’t agree. You can always sign up using a foreign mail provider with a domain privacy service.

      • @ShotDonkeyEnglish
        1•12 hours ago

        Could you break this down in how that works?

        • @[email protected]English
          1•6 hours ago
          1. I register a domain using a service in a country outside of the EU (since Posteo is German).
          2. I also apply a “privacy protection” service, which means my data won’t be visible in the public whois (the domain will be officially registered by the privacy service that I use).
          3. I sign up to Posteo and configure my third-party domain.

          This means Posteo doesn’t know anything about me, and even if the police raids Posteo they can’t find who I am.

          Of course they could, in theory, find out who I am, but that means going to the provider that I used to sign up for my domain, which may be on the other side of the planet outside of German police jurisdiction.