"You could lose access to your 20 years of Gmail history" I'm sure that was intended as a nudge to get me to give my phone number but it came across more like "You've had the same email address for two decades, cool cool cool, except it's on SOMEONE ELSE'S DOMAIN NAME! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING! And you've let them read and control your email for TWENTY YEARS?! How did you let this happen! No, don't look away, you have to fix this or it'll stagnate for another decade, this is an EMERGENCY you absolute MUPPET,"
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No though, it's fine, it's alright, see, I was CLEVER. For the past few years I've been slowly changing my accounts so I don't have everything tied to one ridiculous company that keeps doing daft stuff.
I'm moving to ProtonMail!
Protonmail CEO: *sucks the end of his bleeding finger, giving a dirty look to a mousetrap labelled "A.I."* Yup, we're always innovating
what'd you do to that mousetrap
nothing
*eyeing up another mousetrap, this one labelled "Bitcoin"*
Nah, there are a bunch of fingertips already scattered around that one.
*looks down* Unless...
*unzips fly*
I can't believe the poor Proton social media hamster is still putting out fires all over Fedi after I spent eighteen posts very persuasively and eloquently laying out my concerns and suggesting a future roadmap for the company
Subway Tooter is honestly the best Fedi app for a whole list of reasons, but high up on that list is the ability to have threads open in tabs that you can pin so they don't close accidentally. You can even set colours for those tabs so you can find them more quickly, for when you want to add to them.
Dan why is this relevant to the mousetrap thread
I'LL STOP POSTING ABOUT IT WHEN THEY STOP DOING IT