Moving back to Google – just a little bit
I’ve been hosting my company’s email with FastMail since 2008. They’re amazing. But my personal email had been with Gmail since the service was in beta in 2004. (And everything before Gmail lost to time and bit rot. Sigh.) Around five years ago, I started getting nervous with so much of my online identity tied to an address that I was essentially borrowing and had no real control over. I was never worried about Google losing any of my data, but I had heard countless horror stories of Google’s AI flagging an account for some type of violation and locking …