I would move to an alternative when people i know move from facebook

Thanks very much for the informative reply, I’ll look into all those.

That’s from their FAQ

How is Gander financed?

Right now we’re a bootstrapped company, supported by our own time investment, and the early investment from friends and family. We expect to raise impact funding after our Beta launch, and to seek support from Government programs where possible.

As for monetization, we’re exploring a number of avenues including subscriptions for additional features, shared revenue models with creators, and ethical forms of advertising.

I paid good money a few years ago to get my info stripped from data brokers; as I live in Saskatchewan they could/would only do the bare minimum, which was still a lot do not get me wrong so I got next to no spam. I run a pihole on my LAN so I have some tracker protection as well to block trackers from getting my email. I was using Apple’s hide my feature so all the new things I would sign up for would have their own unique emails.

When I was pricing out the plans I realized it was less expensive to get whatever their least expensive web hosting was and their plan with unlimited emails. I am moving my password manger out of Apple’s walled garden into 1Password, I knew I was not going to easily export passwords from Apple’s password manager into another so I started doing that manually. I knew I was going to have to jump through the hoops to change emails for some things (totally forgetting I had 70 odd icloud addresses), when I was reading somewhere that my ISP (Sasktel) was no longer giving out email addresses and had moved to an exchange server. I do not want my emails getting anywhere near Microsoft’s grubby little fingers, even if it is through a protocol they lease out to providers or companies so I started separating my emails even going to, what I called my professional email address, I am currently sitting at 110 separate email addresses and still have not made it through all of my addresses yet.

How do I manage all those email addresses? Well you see 6 of those emails are “main addresses” which everything gets forwarded to depending on what they are, in case an address gets spammy I can more easily find the stuff and it will help me keep all my things sorted. Every so often I try to say I will keep my mailbox clean, that lasts for a little bit but then it falls apart i am hoping that keeping everything in their own address and then forwarding to a “main address,” will help me stay on top of that more.

Instead of 1password (which I have to use at work and dislike), you might want to check out BitWarden. It’s open source so you can even host it yourself. I use it personally but don’t self host it…yet.

I have bad habits of killing Pi installs so I am terrified of self hosting bitwarden, bitwarden is a US company. While I am not a fan of some of the things about 1Password I think it is better than the Apple Passwords I am moving away from.

Just started using Bitwarden actually. Have a lastpass account paid for the next 9 mo, so migrating over time. Bitwarden has an .eu option as well (also free), just have to remember to select it when logging in or it’ll look like your account vanished and then panic ensues.

I just found this when looking for Canadian alternatives. Anyone else hear about gander? I’m doing my best to support home grown and open alternatives but I have to choose what I am doing on the platform. It’s unlikely that my older family will ever leave Facebook, but honestly, what do I miss by not being present there? Birthday posts on my wall and the latest vacation picture…

I just found this when looking for Canadian alternatives. Anyone else hear about gander? I’m doing my best to support home grown and open alternatives but I have to choose what I am doing on the platform. It’s unlikely that my older family will ever leave Facebook, but honestly, what do I miss by not being present there? Birthday posts on my wall and the latest vacation picture…

It has been a long time since I have thought about lastpass, they got into trouble for being hacked and the password and user names not being hashed properly or not at all. The .eu of Bitwarden is still paying for a US service, and I would not be surprised if the data was stored on the same servers as the ones in the US and they just have an office in the EU.

Agreed re: Lastpass… it’s why I’m migrating. I’m likely missing something but from my read, BW.eu has to comply with GDPR and do have physical servers in Germany. And yeah, free tier suffices for now so not paying US owned service, just using one, but yeah would be better to find a Canuck service.