Glad to hear they’re improving the 2FA! I did forget about their office suite and file storage ability, which does set them apart from all except Proton.

Tuta does not allow you to use third party email clients like Thunderbird.

Offering a free tier lets people try the service, and encourages them to become a paid user if they run up against the limits of the free tier.

From what I understand, Tuta may have a slight edge theoretically, but email itself is a pretty poor protocol when it comes to privacy.

Tuta was forced by court order to implement a message logger for an individual, but AFAIK all of their previous messages were encrypted and could not be read by Tuta, and therefore the Government could only see new unencrypted messages coming in before they were encrypted.

Disroot only recently implemented at-rest encryption, so that should be fairly solid now. Posteo also allows you to encrypt your inbox and calendar at rest.

Even with that, consider all private email providers as mostly just to avoid surveillance capitalism (to prevent your data from being mined and sold), but with only marginal protection from state agents.

Tuta and Posteo are both pretty excellent (posteo is cheaper, but has a few less options that might be a deal breaker if you need them, like custom domain support).

Disroot is a good free option, and they offer custom domains after a one time donation.

Mailbox is okay, though they are known to have a very odd 2fa, and will recycle your address if you ever stop paying, allowing others to claim it and potentially impersonate you.

Posteo is unique in that they’ll never delete your account for inactivity, or even if you stop paying, where they’ll let you access and read emails, but not let you send them until you pay again.

Edit: apparently Tuta is going downhill according to others here, which is unfortunate :(

There’s some good channels on TILVids and Kolektiva.media, and if you’re looking for something specific, Sepiasearch is able to search across all peertube instances.

NSFW spammers. Until their home instance bans them, the best option is to report them so your site admin can see it and ban them on your instance.

Trains.

Elevation, distance to the equator, and seasons will influence the current UV index in your area, which will determine ‘time to burn’ the most. The amount of melanin in the skin, and potentially even your antioxidant load can also factor into how quickly you’ll burn.

(Anecdotally, I seemed to burn less quickly when sunbathing for Vitamin D if I took 1000mg of Vitamin C before doing so, based on using a timer. But that could’ve been influenced by a number of unaccounted factors, and would require a proper double blind study to verify).

EDIT: interestingly, there does seem to be some preliminary evidence that ingesting anti-oxidants does, in fact, have an effect on sunburn.

Linux Mint is technically an Irish based distro, as well.

Pretty much just Peertube.

Be mindful that Italy passed a law forcing vpn’s to block pirated content, and AirVPN is based in Italy.

Greenleaf is pretty massively exaggerating about the extent of defederation, as only a handful ever get defederated regularly, certainly not enough to call it ‘wars’.

As for UX, there’s definitely room for lots of improvements, especially in making it easier to explore another instances local communities from within your own insinstance without explicitly subbing to them all or using lemmyverse.net.

But I don’t think the very concept of different instances is truly a barrier or bad UX, that other user is just giving lazy excuses for not switching away from Reddit.

If that was a legitimate issue, MMO’s (which also often have servers the player needs to choose) wouldn’t have the userbase they do. Nor would Email have taken off.

Even if Lemmy was one big simple centralized server, that user would just come up with another reason they couldn’t switch.

“Oh, it’s too small, my niche communities aren’t there”

“The UI isn’t as nice”

“The mod tools aren’t as good”

Etc.

Ooh, that’s nice. I could see that effectively replacing disqus comments below articles. Cool beans!