Have any of you heard up Posteo being flagged unprofessional? I recently heard someone say that I am curious if there is truth to it.

  • BlackPit@feddit.ch
    401·
    11 months ago

    Posteo is great for business. It’s a professional and competent company that respects your privacy to a good degree, and has a clue about security. In a sense it’s MORE professional than trying to DIY, unless you really know what you’re doing. I would feel encouraged to see a business use Posteo when I receive the email. It tells me that your business probably cares a little about security and/or privacy and possibly the environment too. Total kudos for using Posteo from me.

    What I think is completely unprofessional is to use your ISP’s address for business email. The number one unprofessional business move, in my opinion, is to have your business website on Facebook/Meta, Twitter or any other enshitified corporate social media site. You won’t get my business. I’ll go anywhere else no matter how inconvenient.

    • 乇ㄥ乇¢ㄒ尺ㄖ@infosec.pub
      52·
      11 months ago

      The number one unprofessional business move, in my opinion, is to have your business website on Facebook/Meta, Twitter or any other enshitified corporate social media site.

      Makes sense, but what if I had my website linked to Mastodon, and I had an Onion version as well, and … you can pay me in crypto if you want… 🙂…

      How professional do you think that would be ? If at all ?

      • BlackPit@feddit.ch
        4·
        11 months ago

        Fair enough. I could be happy to purchase if given more/better options. In fact, having the ability to do business from different platforms or self host is smart. Not having all your eggs in one basket is preferable. I was speaking more to people/businesses that rely on Facebook as their singular point of business. And my pet peeve that frustrates to the maximum is business support solely on X/Twit - That is so low effort and unprofessional.

        • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
          2·
          11 months ago

          I have never once been on Facebook… And I was online a decade before it existed.

          Same with Twitter.

          In fact, my PiHole blocks both of them.

          If you only do business through them, you’re telling me all I need to know about you.

  • Contend6248@feddit.de
    23·
    11 months ago

    Anything beside the own domain is unprofessional, if you run a business.

    As an individual i think it speaks for yourself as caring about the environment and privacy.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      I actually don’t care about the environment and I realize email is never going to be private. I like Posteo as it avoids the feature creep.

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
    21·
    11 months ago

    It’s like the green/ blue bubbles thing. Anyone who overemphasizes superficial things like that aren’t worth your time. What matters in a professional environment is the value behind the communique. If the real bill gates messages you from a Hotmail account, you’ld probably want to pay attention.

    • neutron@thelemmy.club
      1·
      11 months ago

      Emails like user@cocaine.ninja is fine for random internet shitposting, but if I had to use cockmail for anything involving real life responsibilities I’d go for domains like airmail.cc or firemail.cc at registration.

        • neutron@thelemmy.club
          1·
          11 months ago

          To be honest, I am tempted to use one of the edgier domain names in my CV just to see their reaction. I’m tired of faking everything’s perfect just so the crazies at LinkedIn doesn’t send my cv to trash bin.

  • The Doctor@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    No, not at all.

    That sounds like some often parroted but never actually a thing job hunting advice from the late 90’s.

    • stevecrox@kbin.run
      9·
      11 months ago

      It isn’t a good move.

      A domain name can cost as little as £10, similarly most email services cost ~£5-£15 per person per month. Its normally pretty easy to link a domain to an email provider and doesn’t cost anything other than time.

      If a company can’t be bothered to implement the most basic online branding people will make their assumptions and some will filter your company out because of it. With the cost to implement so low (e.g. £160 per year), even the loss/gain of a single customer would justify it.