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Re:Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021) by rvz on Monday May 23, 2022 @11:33AM (#31480354)
It is Web3. You can still use it even if Skiff servers shuts down. By using and supporting ENS, there is no lock in to Skiff servers. That is the whole point of it.

> If you take away the electricity wasting ethereum network you're left with an email client - which is honestly great - but decidedly not web3.

Not quite. It is not just an email client, it is an end-to-end encrypted workspace as well and everything is open source. As long as they still have ENS working with it and wallet logins, it is still Web3.

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Re:Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021) by ben-schaaf on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @01:49AM (#31488452)
> As long as they still have ENS working with it and wallet logins, it is still Web3.

ENS inherently relies on ethereum. Take away ethereum and you take away ENS. Do that and you take away the only blockchain related part of Skiff. Do that and it's no longer Web3.

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