I’ve been using Tutanota and Mullvad for like a decade now without any issues.
Tutanota in particular, feels like it’s gotten a lot better in the last year or so. The inbox loads a lot faster and you can show sender info in the notification.
Because it’s just kind of lazy, everyone has access to LLMs now. If they wanted an AI answer they’d just use Google and click “expand” on whatever summary it sticks at the top of the search results.
People use social media to interact with other humans, and unless we explicitely ask, we don’t want to read through a wall of AI text.
Good ideas absolutely do die all the time even in open source. If the original dev doesn’t want to play nice, it’s actually pretty difficult to create a new fork that everyone will agree on. Hopefully these federated apps have enough inertia to prevent the userbase from splintering when the original devs move on.