#betteremail — Public Fediverse posts
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Data resilience at Fastmail comes down to a principle our CEO, Bron Gondwana, wrote down over ten years ago. The primary copy is gold. Back it up, replicate it. Principles rarely change, and that one has not.
In April it got tested. A bug wiped mailboxes for 8 accounts. Backups brought all of it back, down to 5 sent emails recovered from temporary files inside Cyrus. The write-up covers what broke, PR numbers and all.
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For #SaferInternetDay: Even with tracker blocking and a privacy-focused browser, using a surveillance-based search engine undermines your privacy stack.
We've joined Kagi's "Friends of Kagi" program. Kagi is a paid search engine with no tracking, no behavioural profiling, and no ad-based business model—aligned with our approach to sustainable, user-funded services.
Details on building a complete privacy stack: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/safer-internet-day-why-your-search-engine-matters-more-than-you-think/