Aaron Parecki

Checking out iOS mail clients and it’s depressing. Either they scrape your email to sell data, or your contacts, or their servers fetch mail and store your password… whatever happened to an email app talking to a mail server directly? I guess when the app is free, you’re the 😔

Totally agree, & I don't want this to sound like criticism. It's been a lot of fun, and I appreciate your work immensely. I'm just eager for my friends to do it too, but know that's not currently feasible for many of them. If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know.

4/ In short, the process to “own your content” is currently in the chasm, and won’t cross over into mass adoption until we make it *way* easier. That said, I like this setup a lot, and am encouraged that it’s a thing that is now possible.

Just canceled my Medium subscription.