• staticlifetime@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      Basically, it’s saying, use Nextcloud, don’t get fooled by these privacy-oriented sites that may have some sort of open source client to access the service, but is running on pure closed-source infrastructure. I would agree that it’s smarter to use Nextcloud instead, but for email? Yeah, I’m not self-hosting that.

  • stepan@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    31·
    1 year ago

    I definitely agree on that open source backend is great, but you still cannot verify that that’s the code running on their servers. Open source frontend is much more important IMO.

    • amanwithausername@vlemmy.netEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      you still cannot verify that that’s the code running on their servers

      This is why end-to-end encryption is paramount. You could be using Gmail as your provider for all I care as long as your messages are GPG-encrypted. Even if you trust the server-side completely (e.g. self-hosted), it’s still better to encrypt wherever possible, since it reduces attack surface.