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Skiff, the private email provider has been acquired by Notion. It is set to shut down its services after 6 months. (skiff.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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All skiff users have received a mail in this regard and Skiff has also tweeted about the same.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Their generous offering of 10gigabytes of free storage along with a private, ad-free, end-to-end encrypted experience always sounded too good to be true. There was no way they could sustain that business model long term. At least they're giving users enough time to jump ship and have not sold their data to Notion (judging by their twitter replies).

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/rimtaSgGz_4?t=128

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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