I pay for the mail plus account so I can use email aliases as well, but people who just need one email address can just go with the free account. They have a decent mobile app and an okay desktop app. I'm very happy with their service.

When it came out that the major telecoms had been hacked recently Biden's FBI recommended that everyone move to Signal or similar for Android-to-iOS texting. I really like Signal. You can also do cross-platform video calls with it. And Proton Mail is encrypted end to end as well. It's a good choice.

You just install it for the App Store and sign up with your phone number. You will then appear in the directory for your friends already signed up for Signal. So if you have an iPhone, you open Signal for texting and video calls rather than iMessage or FaceTime.

Edit: Signal messages are encrypted end to end, and for activism they have so cool security features like "disappearing messages" (I.e., an auto self destruct).

Invited the contacts I wanted to use it with.

no need to filter through gazillion data bytes to collect identification of left activists .
F47 has his hired goons in charge and we just wave a flag in advance of the demonstrations? r
cage everyone up before they even leave home.
I think a different alternative not suggested by his goons would be a better way to go.

imo.

Excellent choices/ideas.
Hide my email creates a per-site email address which forwards all the mail it receives to your regular email, hiding anything that uses your actual name from the site.

CEO kissing orange keister.


Good:
https://proton.me/blog/trump-controls-nsa-fbi
Trump now controls the NSA and FBI – What this means for your privacy

Bad.
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/
Proton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party
The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.

Ugly:
Apology ( on old.reddit)
https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i2nz9v/on_politics_and_proton_a_message_from_andy/

Nevertheless, it's the CEO.

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If you go there, this is the result.


I trust no company whose CEO kisses Trump's Rump, and that includes Apple and Google and Amazon and so on, and use privacy tools from third parties like Signal and Tor Project that I can trust, for sensitive communications.

The rest, I use with caution if I can't avoid.

Signal seems to do messaging and even video.

I posted some tools in Activist HQ
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10113622

And I am going to look at the tools at riseup.net (mentioned in the above) but that site seems to require an account to explore things, so I need to set up a "try this out" account to explore. I have known that group for some time, so it's nothing really new and goofy.

ways to protect data — have you tried a Yubikey for authentication? Please do let me know if you find anything interesting. I’ll check if my husband has a login for riseup.

I'll prioritize community building and information sharing tools.

Not related to privacy, I found free MediaWiki hosting today, and free Moodle hosting for small groups.
Moodle is easy to password protect.