They've just done the same with a calendar app that I forget the name of. They then rereleased it under their own brand.

They appear to be on an unspoken mission to challenge Google's suite of apps, so I'd hazard a guess that email tech is a part of that puzzle (along with calendar)

Yes! Also because capitalism is the bestest, most innovative economic system ever!

Perhaps interested in the people working there and wanting to create their own email service from the ground up?

There is a not-insignificant amount of start ups and small projects out there looking to hook the privacy-minded crowd seeking smaller, independent replacements for Microsoft /Google/Apple's various services and suites.

And that's good in the sense there's more options, but some of them (not all, but some) don't seem to be from people that truly believe in their product and intend to maintain it long term, they just want to get enough users to get acquired.

Stage 1 is done. Stage 2 is beginning:

now here's how a platform dies. first it's good to its users. then it abuses those users to make things better for business customers.

https://youtu.be/rimtaSgGz_4?t=128

good intentions

I’m sorry to tell you that nearly every startup today begins with an exit strategy from the start. The founders of skiff were probably waiting for the right number of zeros in this case

Not a db, I just want to share one reason that happened to the startup I was working at.

The owners were thinking about keep business as usually which means paying more to the employees or scaling up which is very expensive, they only had small to medium sized companies as their customers(but many). Then this big company came from a different country, they were on a shopping spree buying a lot of companies(scaling up and taking over the market). The owners of the company I worked at were soon 65 or above 65 so they thought that it was a opportunity. Because if they sell then they don't have to be worried about money after retirement. So they did. But they did think the company would be taken care of, but I think they also looked away from the bad stuff, wishing this would be great. Almost everyone left the company after a year or two (myself included), it was a sinking ship. Same goes for the other companies they acquired.

Tldr; selling the company to get retirement money while hoping the company will be taken cared of. Took only a year for ppl to leave because of how bad it was.

Not a db but https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

It’s a nice thought but if everyone were to manage their own email server (and other things) we would have SO much more security problems in general.

That used to be a thing until everyone started drooling over cloud based services, which I never trusted but time marches on and services for the masses are much needed.

I've worked at companies like this. Company B might actually be turning a good profit and benefiting millions of users in a charitable space, but it would look bad on the books to sell it, and it lowers the value of the company overall to keep it.

Belligerent toilet capitalism.

How much for your markdown files?

+1 for obsidian! Have you tried out text generator plugin? Uses GPT api's. Haven't gotten into D&D but seems like it'd be a great tool for DMs to help make content.

I believe Skiff would automatically start using end to end encryption when it was available, without any user needing to enable it for any specific email, using the Web Key Directory standard: https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/blob/1634bea9d2a66ef5804b68d18d4218e0b7a8b806/docs/email.md#openpgp-compatible-services

It's not good for me that an email provider that supports that is undergoing dramatic changes, as an open standard that protects my privacy is more useful when it is used with more services.

I haven't used Skiff myself, but I would guess that that's what it was. Proton and Tuta also feature E2E encryption, and it's exactly how it works there, too.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that can GPG. Never met anyone willing to learn.