"Thundermail" will be part of a suite of Thunderbird Pro services, as the team behind the venerable Mozilla email client begins building a complete ecosystem.

“Thundermail” will be part of a suite of Thunderbird Pro services, as the team behind the venerable Mozilla email client begins building a complete ecosystem.

    • jqubed@lemmy.world
      51·
      2 days ago

      “It is my conviction that all of this should have been a part of the Thunderbird universe a decade ago," Sipes says. “The absence of web services from us means that our users must make compromises that are often uncomfortable ones. This is how we correct that.”

        • Flagstaff@programming.devEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          lol, sadly nearly half of Amazon’s income is from AWS; even if its entire marketplace went kaput tomorrow, it’d be fine because so much of the entire Internet depends on it.

          • reddig33@lemmy.world
            2·
            21 hours ago

            Maybe so. But there’s nothing stopping someone from selling Sears-owned hosting services other than investment. I can see someone like Mark Cuban doing this.

            Amazon is very vulnerable right now because

            • people are boycotting them
            • their website is overrun with fake reviews and cheap junk
            • their products like Alexa are flopping and being canceled
            • they have overextended themselves buy purchasing outfits they don’t need like Whole Foods

            Other retail outfits are flailing like Kohls, Target, and JC Penny for the same reasons.

            All it would take is an online store that stands behind what they sell and doesn’t hide behind an eBay-style reseller system while calling it “retail”.

    • jqubed@lemmy.world
      242·
      2 days ago

      Desperate for cash and the money from Google might be going away soon because of the antitrust case? Can’t take them on directly in Search; this honestly seems like one of the better ventures for them to go to. Still, 10 years ago would’ve been better and Mozilla squandered some of the goodwill they had in recent years; I’d be a little more reticent about moving my digital presence over now.

      • real_squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        17·
        2 days ago

        Can’t take them on directly in Search

        Give it a few years, google search is already nearly unusable.

        By the way, as a gmail replacement disroot has been great so far. I wonder what the free tier of thundermail will be like, but also worry a little that it might poach donations from smaller, free services.

        • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          6·
          2 days ago

          I used disroot for some time, it’s great; but it still doesn’t have encryption sadly. I think they’re working on it though but you need to manually email your GPG key to them, so they can add it. It took me a couple of weeks to get a reply (understandable, the guy who handles it was busy)