There's still time to make the internet what it was meant to be.
A place to create, share, and dream together - that vision still lives. But today, it's often overshadowed by a handful of powerful corporations. Once open and full of possibility, our online spaces have become tightly controlled. Participation now comes at the cost of privacy: our data is harvested, our choices influenced, our conversations observed.
Nowhere is this more evident than in email, one of our most essential tools for communication. Yet it hasn't evolved to better serve us. Instead, a few companies control most of the world's email traffic. Their platforms don't just deliver messages; they scan, classify, and monetize them.
This concentration of control has stalled progress.
Email hasn't plateaued because it's done growing. It's because true innovation is impossible in a closed system. These gatekeepers have little reason to support openness or change. But when communication belongs to everyone, creativity and progress can thrive. There's a better path ahead, a future where our digital lives are truly our own, private, open, and built for people, not profit.
The current system works exactly as it was designed, to preserve control. Big Tech's email monopoly isn't just profitable; it's self-reinforcing. By controlling spam filters, routing, and deliverability, they decide what messages reach whom. A new email service can be silenced by a single algorithmic tweak, no explanation, no appeal.
This isn't a free market. It's a closed system that resists competition and suppresses innovation. What they call “security” is often just control, surveillance wrapped in a friendly interface. They read our messages, track our behavior, and claim it's all for our protection. But real security protects freedom, not power. And real innovation starts with openness.
OpenEmail: Privacy. Simplicity. Freedom.
A reinvention of asynchronous, long-form communication, with the familiarity of email, but free from surveillance, free from gatekeepers, and built on a new, open, radically simple public protocol.
OpenEmail is decentralized and secure by default. It offers true end-to-end encryption and a privacy-first model that doesn't require trusting anyone with your data. There are no gatekeepers, no hidden agendas, just an open system available to all.
An inbox without surveillance. Where messages are private and trustworthy by design. No spam. No arbitrary limits. Send anything. Recall when needed. Stay connected without relying on social media. Rediscover the clarity and calm of denoised communication.
Download OpenEmail. It's free.
Soon even on your own domain.
We believe the internet should respect the individual, not exploit them. That communication should be free and private, not monitored or monetized. That connection should feel human, not engineered for profit.