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.

edit: It appears that it’s only the autistici.org domain that has been blocked (the registrar for the .org TLD is American), the services are still running (though my email is unable to receive mail, I can only read existing mail). A/I is working towards providing users with a new mail address. If that doesn’t pan out, I’ll probably go with Disroot.

  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
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    10 days ago

    I read their announcement a few days back, where they emphasized their ability to bring services, when taken down, back up pretty quickly. I am not involved in that space, and i am pretty sure that it will be a lot harder to restore services under these circumstances, but are you sure they won’t come back up? They seemed very motivated to brace this storm, even if only to create a testament regarding overcompliance of business entities.

    • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com
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      No, they’ll be able to restore without issue. There’s plenty of server hosts that don’t care about this sillyness.

      They said what’s different now is funding. It’s just harder for them to pay for things and accept donations. But we have solutions for that (monero), it just minimizes the funds they’ll get and which providers accept it.

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      Nah, they’ve been taken down before. The playbooks are already in place. Just an annoying scramble that’ll cause a few days downtown