I've never heard of Skiff, but it's sad to see more software gobbled up by VCs. Though it sounds like the back end was never OSS to begin with?

I used to be so excited about a future where people were software literate where we would be building open systems and make a decent living. Instead, people have been force fed locked down systems in the name of "user experience", all so that a few people can make an absolute killing while the rest of us feed off the scraps (even if the scraps of the software industry are still pretty good). It just makes me sad.

I am extremely appreciative of folks who do make honest open source software though! Many of them do make a decent living too. It's hard not to lose hope when reading stuff like this, but then I remember that I'm typing this comment using Firefox on KDE Plasma running on a Linux kernel, right next to an Emacs session. Sticking to good open source software is a wonderful thing!

Any company funded by VC with a privacy tag is a red flag.

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We also would like for this moment to encourage everyone to reflect on the ownership structure of the tools that they rely on, and perhaps to favour building some genuine commons rather than products that can simply vanish because of conflicting interests

No one in this community cares about open source. It's been overrun by privacy redditors, some of whom seem to have a personal mission to campaign against the free software movement. There's a constant deluge of "it's not foss but it's private/not google" apologia in almost every thread here.

I suspect the community being unmoderated is part of the problem.

Alright, time to check out Cryptpad.

@cryptpad@fosstodon.org glad to see your blog is being distributed across the Fediverse.

Open source I truly believe is the future. It's the luck of the draw to rely on private companies to truly focus on a product's mission or just to use "privacy", "open source" as mere buzzword stepping stones to profitability.

Migrating our data, you mean

I had the opportunity to try their products, it was a great suite of apps although they had details to work out. It's a shame 😔.

Any good ideas for alternatives to Skiff? I only need mail, I have my own domain and cannot self-host for at least the next one-two years.

And crazy that I learn about this through this post

Nft storage? Who wrote this? Bruh