That’s harsh. I think there is a meaningful distinction between lying and being ignorant or misinformed.

when later devs have more work with forking it than with independent releases.

If that were true, then how do Brave and Librewolf even exist? Clearly it was less work to strip the garbage than to start from scratch.

I went to expireddomains.net and searched for ones ending in “__mail.net”. Found a good, short domain that was once a regional ISP and email provider 15-20 years ago. (I still get spam for some of their old subscribers.).

I do not use subdomains for this one. Generally, I combine a simple name with a number for the mailbox name. Like “johnathan2715@zzzmail.net” if I think it needs to look like a real name, or some other word like “giraffe1238” or something like that.

It’s working great.