There need to be portability laws for email addresses. You know how cell phone companies are legally required to transfer your phone number if you ask? That, but for email. I'd have a much worse time losing my email address than my phone number.
Skiff got bought up by Notion.
This means that all skiff users need to find a new platform.
Notion does not even offer an email service, so we just lost a big player in the privacy community, very sad that they made this decision. I have considered switching to something like #tuta or #proton.
From what i have seen we have 6 months to migrate #skiff#notion https://skiff.com
Ich habe mir letzte Woche den den Service #Skiff man angeschaut. Die Oberfläche ist zwar etwas angestaubt, aber erinnert mich sehr an die frühen Zeiten von OpenOffice/LibreOffice und ist vor allem im Gesamtpaket leistungsstark, auch in der kostenlosen Variante (inklusive Domainverwaltung).
"Searching through email content in an end-to-end encrypted email provider is no easy feat. Because Skiff does not have access to any user emails, all search queries have to be performed client-side. To make this possible, we’ve developed innovative search indexing algorithms that work in the browser, in Skiff’s Windows and macOS apps, and in our iOS and Android native apps."
I currently recommend avoiding using, and/or contributing to their products, until they fix their false advertising.
They are actually licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA (Non commercial, share-a-like), which is not an open source license (as commercial use allowed is a requirement for open source).
When confronted on Github, the issue was shortly closed, saying that the libraries used for the apps are open source, and that they have no plan for allowing commercial use for their apps.
I pointed out that open source requires commercial use, and I got this reply from their CEO:
"Commercial use is not a requirement for open source software. Study the MongoDB case."
Didn't know that MongoDB is open source. Because it's not. It's source-available, not open source.
Well, can't blame for users not checking this. Even It's FOSS News publication (https://news.itsfoss.com/skiff-mail-review/) got baited. Startups are using open source software's reputation, without contributing to the community (by using an proper license).
The more I look into private and secure email the more I get slightly overwhelmed with information. There are many options. Before I take the plunge into completely moving my email and going through that hassle I thought it would see if anyone have experience with @protonmail, @fastmail#Skiff#Tunanota or any others.
Thanks in advance and please boost this toot so I can get many different opinions.
What do you think about Skiff? Is it worth checking out? (skiff.com)
I'm looking at Skiff's services lately and it's actually looking pretty good!...