Chris EspinosaDec 13, 2023
I don’t understand email. How do I know which email service to choose? Won’t I be stuck only communicating with people on the same server? How will people find me? What if I don’t like my service and have to change my email address? Or if my service goes out of business? Why do some email providers charge money and others are free? Will I get ads in my email? It’s all so confusing. Why don’t we all agree on one giant email server that we all use that is secure and benevolent and free?
Show threadClaudiusDec 15, 2023
@Cdespinosa
I know this is supposed to be a joke, but have you talked to teenagers or young adults? None of them use email except when forced to.
@janl
Show threadJan Lehnardt Dec 15, 2023
@claudius @Cdespinosa yea but not because it is hard to use.
Show threadClaudiusDec 15, 2023

@janl @Cdespinosa In the end, I think, most of the reasons for email falling out of favour boil down to "not as easy to set up and use as something like a mobile messenger".

But if you know of different reasons I'd be interested what they could be?

Show threadJan Lehnardt 
@claudius generational dislike of the thing that came before.
Dec 15, 2023 at 7:43amWeb
Show threadClaudiusDec 15, 2023

@janl It is certainly *a* factor, I don't disagree. But that's a "why not both" situation, I think.

E-Mail is hard for similar reasons that the fediverse is hard. Contact Discovery sucks. Choosing a service and setting it up on computers and phones sucks. On top of that, E-Mail is slower than instant messengers, you have to deal with spam and get little to no personal mail (because that is now pretty much exclusively WA or Signal) - you don't exactly have an incentive to regularly check E-Mail

Show threadJan Lehnardt Dec 15, 2023
@claudius I don’t care enough about this to discuss this at this detail :)
Show threadClaudiusDec 15, 2023
@janl fair :-)