jwzDec 9

Today in Email Hegemony.

Here are the 2025 top ten domains from orders placed on the @dnalounge store. Remember this the next time someone uses email as an example of a federation success story.

73.0% gmail.com
8.5% yahoo.com
7.1% icloud.com
2.6% hotmail.com
0.7% outlook.com
0.6% aol.com
0.5% comcast.net
0.5% me.com
0.4% sbcglobal.net
0.3% live.com
5.8% everything else

https://jwz.org/b/yk0O

Show threadAndrew  Dec 9
@jwz even better is when I use my custom domain on a website (which uses Tuta Mail) only to be told it’s not a valid email address, because I decided not to use fucking Gmail.
Show threadphilosophizes whilst swimming
@jwz @piepants that’s what happened to me: paid for a runbox address, couldn’t buy things from some websites, couldn’t communicate reliably with some attorneys and relatives when it mattered. Back to gmail. There’s a stink of wrong here, maybe even illegal.
Dec 9 at 3:23amWeb
Show threadTom TomDec 9
@adardis @jwz @piepants that seems very odd to me. I've never had any problem using my own email with my own domain name. Actually I use very often the fake email [email protected] form and it always go through the form.
Show threadAndrew  Dec 9
@tomtom @adardis @jwz I’ve only had it a couple of times thankfully. Hasn’t been enough of a problem to make me want to go back to Gmail.