Complete and utter garbage.

Well yeah, it’s not a proper long-term solution. But making a twitter account with a burner email from Guerrilla Mail is surprisingly easy, I guess that will be the only option going forward.

Americans have something even worse: SMS

Is it worse than in other European countries?

If the machines are on the same network, try LocalSend

Switzerland seems like a nice place

But it’s not completely dead yet, it’s just slowly dying.

You can still use it. Twiit checks for nitter instances that still work and redirects you.

Twiit checks for nitter instances that still work and redirects you.

Yeah Vultr is great

As far as I can see on their website, they don’t mention end to end encryption or zero-knowledge encryption. If that is true, it means that they are able to read all your emails (and so can the government if they order them to reveal the data). They sometimes use some pretty confusing marketing slag in general. It’s misleading because they advertise things like in-transit TLS encryption, which is standard nowadays. Even Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo and other mainstream email providers have this by default. This is nothing special and they hope that people think it means the same as E2EE. If you care about data ownership, you should also care about (end-to-end) encryption. Only when you are the only key holder, you can be sure that no one can access your private stuff.

Twiit (https://twiiit.com/) checks for nitter instances that still work and redirects you.

Sure, you go ahead and try it out for yourself to see if it works. Just wanted to let you know that selfhosting an Email server is not easy. Regarding ethics, I like Proton because they support privacy, open source software, and they never sold out to VC. Their website is accessible via Tor, they accept Bitcoin payments and they actually care about their users. That’s probably the most ethical email provider you can find.

a bit? It’s not just a bit overkill, this is absolutely brain dead.

You can easily circumvent this block with a VPN. Proton actually offers a free tier of their VPN service that is specifically designed for users that experience censorship: https://protonvpn.com/vpn/censorship

Proton Mail also has a Tor website: https://protonmailrmez3lotccipshtkleegetolb73fuirgj7r4o4vfu7ozyd.onion/

Guys! I know how to get Gmail blocked in India!

You need to update Pihole

https://twiiit.com/ checks which Nitter instances still work and redirects you accordingly

They probably don’t allow email. Most VPS providers (even paid ones) block SMTP port 25.

I wouldn’t actually selfhost email, it’s not particularly easy and there are many issues you will probably encounter. I recommend ProtonMail, it’s $3.50/month if you only need email and for $8/month you also get calendar, cloud storage, a password manager and a great VPN. Also, they are very focused on privacy and encryption and their apps are open source. Alternatively you can go with IVPN or Mullvad, both are great. Digitalocean has been fine in my experience, have you had any issues with it?