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

  • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’ve seen this happen far too many times.

    Acquired/Acqui-hired

    Examples: GeoCities, Posterous, Brace.io, Roon, Viddy, Qwiki, Yahoo! Voices, Blip.tv, Giphy

    Situation: Company A buys Company B, employees and all. Together, they will continue their incredible journey to make the world a better place. A few months/years/seconds later, Company B is dead and its employees are either laid off or reassigned to Company A projects.

    https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/A_Million_Ways_to_Die_on_the_Web

    http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

    • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      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)

      • body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        Cron. They didn’t shut it down though, they just suddenly transitioned it. I’d just started using Cron when they did it and it was very unexpected for me.

        • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          2 years ago

          I mean that sounds pretty reasonable, could they just not think of a name that wasn’t already in prevalent use? Was the goal to be unsearchable for anyone trying to find it?

          That’s like creating a reminders app and naming it task manager.

          • sugartits@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            2 years ago

            Or a spreadsheet program and calling it Excel.

            Or outlook, access…

            The name doesn’t matter if you can establish it.

            • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
              0·
              2 years ago

              Their point isn’t that it’s a weird name that isn’t descriptive of what the product does, their point is that cron is an already existing bit of software that does something else.

              It’d be like if MS made a notes app called Steam, Google called a new camera app iTunes, or Apple rebranded Apple Music to PowerShell.

              Minus the trademark infringement I guess. I doubt Cron has that.

              • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                Even worse is that it’s close enough.

                Like “recur by specific days but not by months cron”

                Is a valid search for both things. Only one came out in 1975 and has had that name forever, and one decided it would be cool to hijack it

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    Imagine a future where every home user can run a FreedomBox or something similar with decentralized services like email with your own custom email domain, XMPP and more. No more exploitation by commercial companies.

    🌞

    • Vub@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        This is true.

        And it’s a problem with email itself lacking a native security infrastructure.

        I don’t know what the answer is - maybe less reliance on email? But then it would have to be supplanted by something else.

        Seems like we’re still in the developing phase of all this stuff.

        Email grew during a time when connectivity was sporadic. I’ll check my email when I get connected. So store-and-forward.

        We still need the store-and-forward capability, but we now rely on instant delivery.

        Then there’s the conversation vs letter idea, files/attachments, etc.

        Corporate systems try to combine it all, which makes sense. No reason to move files about, instead have a repository and send coworkers links to the files since we’re all part of the same infrastructure (it’s a database after all).

        If we look more abstractly at the major functions people use, there’s largely messages (ad-hoc, one-off), conversations (something like messages, with group management, longer-term chains, etc), data sharing (files, images, video, preferably links so people retrieve as needed), meta-data (say contact info, business info, location data, etc), and who’s know what else I’m missing. Designing system/s to manage all this while being extensible seems the big challenge.

        To go full circle on this, even if everyone self-hosted this same repository/messaging platform, we’d need some kind of federation capability, with security and trust management.

        It would be interesting to see any research on this from Microsoft (and other groups, universities, FB etc) - their R&D org really knows their stuff. I’d like to see the high-level, abstract, major categories of elements.

        • olympicyes@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          2 years ago

          Look at systems like QNAP that allow you to host cloud features from your home. Email or text a link to your file hosted on your NAS! Photo sharing features. Very nice! That said, constant security issues. Now your NAS is pwned.

          • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
            01·
            2 years ago

            Oh, you can do something like this today, but not with a mature, security-focused, federated product.

            I’m kind of building something like this for friends/family, but it won’t be generally exposed to the world, it’ll be isolated on a VLAN, with no access to my home net. And it’ll have a secure front end accessible only via a VPN.

            Not something for the average person to do.