A few days ago, the U.S. government sanctioned A/I for supporting “extreme far-left antifa terrorists”. If you didn’t know, A/I is an antifascist and anticapitalist group based in Italy, and they host a lot of services (like email, website hosting, etc.) run through donations. Their policy states that they are against racism, sexism, militarism, homophobia, and transphobia, and you have to agree to those principles to use their services. Their website and mailing server has been taken down, and unfortunately, that also means my email no longer works. It’s kind of insane how quickly the American government can take down internet services they don’t like. A/I has denied all of the allegations by the Trump admin, and rightfully so, they’re just a digital services provider who respect your privacy and are against fascism and bigotry.
relevant link if you want to read more about this: https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076
I still need to use email, so what’s a good alternative email provider that doesn’t profit off of my data? I have used Disroot in the past and had good experiences with their services, so they are currently my fallback. I have ruled out Proton and Tuta, as neither support IMAP properly.
Second riseup. I have used the email service and the VPN for years
it’s still invite only
If you’re politically active you can get an invite from one of your comrades. If that’s not something you can do, you probably don’t need it.
+1 for riseup though, they’re sound and have used their email service for years. disroot is a good alternative that is open to public registration.
you say so, but I begged every activist and passer-through for years and only lucked into one from a forum posting.
I guess it depends on the types of activists you know. I’d give you an invite myself but I think invites are tied to the inviter so I can’t really do so without linking my riseup and my lemmy.
I got one from a forum posting a few years back
I will check to see if I have any invites left.
Otherwise, I joined by writing to them directly and requesting access and proving it was beneficial to me
I don’t need em. I got an account. but it was admitted during a spam wave and will probably never be given invite codes.
Doesn’t seem safe. Their servers are in the US
Their headquarters are in the US. Not all of their servers are.