Honestly this is artistic genius at Escheresque level. The thunderbird outline (better reflecting the mozilla link) gets to shape with its body (suggesting hugg

Honestly this is artistic genius at Escheresque level. The thunderbird outline (better reflecting the mozilla link) gets to shape with its body (suggesting hugging and protecting) both a mail envelope and a chat bubble! The economy of representation is just amazing. > carrying us forward into the next 20 years Thats the catch. The new logo sets sky-high expectations :-) Thunderbird is the natural client to the emerging fediverse. It can offer a consistent interface to help users organize locally and privately the torrent of information they exchange with others, whether that is email, rss or anything exchanged via activitypub servers (toots, events, book reviews etc). The era of "super-apps" is upon us [1]. Users prefer fewer and better apps that bundle related functions. The question is how the open source and privacy respecting universe will respond to the onslaught of walled-garden super apps. The browser/firefox is the obvious first super-app. It is powerful enough to be called an OS within an OS. It is invaluable to have a privacy-first window to the Web. But its true character is a sandboxed, stateless window. Users click and scroll and leave a behavioral footprint on somebody else's server. Which may be ok. Or not. Because you can overload the browser to create (among many others) webmail, but that is not an empowering, user-centric and privacy-first design. This is where thunderbird comes in. The personal agent/thunderbird super-app is the (largely under-developed) second opportunity for the open source universe. Its character is a stateful window to fediverse (or Web 3), helping to organize the world's subset of information in a way that is intimate to the user. Local information, local intelligence. Which brings to the natural (and unavoidable these days) conclusion: To realize the full potential of thunderbird as a personal agent it will be quite important to develop a versatile plugin ecosystem that can tap locally-run "AI" services. [1] https://www.theverge.com/22738395/social-media-super-app-facebook-wechat-shopping https://www.theverge.com/22738395/social-media-super-app-fac...