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I would gladly pay if I knew I was going to get committed service. I live in fear that someday the Algorithm will decide I am naughty and lock me out of my digital life.

I have considered enrolling in a Workspace plan, but I hear any number of gotchas because it is not the happy path, and X workflow is not supported for paid plans. That is, a worse product, even if you pay.

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> I live in fear that someday the Algorithm will decide I am naughty and lock me out of my digital life.

That fear became too much for me after getting locked out twice of my main Gmail account (which has been my 'life' for 15 years) last November. I was able to recover it, but some have not been able to.

Now I use Fastmail, and am migrating all Google, Amazon, SaaS etc. service I can to self-hosting. The transition is taking months in my spare time, and there's some expense, but I feel the 'free' party is truly over now.

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