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I have been using Skiff for about a year or so and was only satisfied with their email which can forward your Gmail emails and have aliases for free, the calendar app didn't notify me so it was useless but now it does and it works very well, I could also import my Tutanota calendar very easily. The drive has 10gb for free and can now download all your Google drive in one click and you can use IPFS as storage, this company is really making it easy to get out of Google with a smile.

What do you all think about it ?

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[–] sir_reginald 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this company is really making it easy to get out of Google with a smile.

yet another fake privacy initiative. this post is clearly an ad

[–] Chobbes 3 points 1 year ago

I consider marketing something as “for free thinkers” as a huge red flag.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably an ad, but much more subtle if so. The old ones were so blatant. :)

What makes you do it with a smile? What does it give you that proton or tutanota doesn't?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Never heard of it, am suspicious.

Also, those icons in the preview image look like an abstracted Peter Griffin.

"Lois, look: I'm icons now! Hehehehehehehehe!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want the drugs you are on

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Talk to your doctor to see if Imagination™ is right for you!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that it's name? Awesome

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

IDK, I've overdosed on Imagination™ and the lines separating reality from fantasy are just gone now: Maybe it was all just some crazy fever dream.

Fun unrelated fact: It's is just a contraction of it and is, its would be what you'd use to show ownership (no apostrophe) because English is wacky like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, that's what it's! I've been wondering for a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"No, not like that!"

-English

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no the radom dude online who speaks another language made a quick mistake. Better make sure to correct him! Why do people always get a boner from grammatics? Its ridiculous! (hehe)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ok fine, don't learn anything.

For what it's worth, I didn't even know English was your second language: You write better than many native speakers, don't get discouraged it wasn't my intent to offend.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Looks interesting. The first glance it looks like "Yet another company trying to make Email what it isn't", which means breaking all compatibility with existing mechanisms (e.g. IMAP) at cost of getting locked-in into their own ecosystem (unless you pay premium and enable IMAP back like Proton does).

This is why while I want companies like Proton and Tutanota succeed, I don't use their email products for business purposes.

[–] Decentralizr 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Switched a while back from proton to skiff and loving it. Also the send emails later feature is great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would you mind telling me why you switched?

[–] Decentralizr 1 points 1 year ago

First because of the price, they give away credits if you apply for it. Our company saved around half of the price vs proton. Second pages. It’s great to work as a team on pages and the integration between calendar, pages, drive and email just works great. It’s basically like Gmail without the spying

[–] joel_feila 1 points 1 year ago

What are big differences between the 2

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For those who think it is an AD, it isn't. I just like Skiff so I made a post about it to see what people from the privacy sub think of it, clearly and without much explanation most of you don't like it. I genuinely thought it was a good company, now I am not sure anymore without knowing why. I would have loved more explainations about why is it so bad.

[–] sir_reginald 1 points 1 year ago

with a quick look at their website we can have a taste of how much they care about privacy. Their website is connecting to various third party domains:

  • matomo: an invasive analytics software
  • sanity.io: which I didn't know, but from their homepage "Treat content as data" doesn't sound good.

and that's just by viewing their homepage connections.

I'm sure there are more problems, but I don't want to invest more time in a random sketchy company when just in their homepage have demonstrated how little they care of privacy.

By reading other comments, their email doesn't support email clients, which is a huge issue.