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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I actually love email. It's great that we have a standard and open protocol for sending and receving virtual mail. Without email we would be now probably using some closed-source proprierary and not interoperable solution witch locks you in. I'm glad it didn't happen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I will fight anyone who disagrees with the fact that email is the best protocol ever invented. It is perfect. Arbitrary text, file attachments, e2ee with gpg. It has zero downsides for most things. It's just been destroyed by corpos :/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

What about ip over avian carriers? I think it's better 😅

But yes. Email is great. :3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Eh, it suffers from higher than useful packet loss and has absurdly high latency.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This memey post isn't about Email as a concept, it's about the state of commercial communication companies and the way we access having email.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Don't worry. I get it. :3 I'm just adding another perspective to the discussion.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Click here to unsubscribe. Great; it will take 4-10 days. It never unsubscribes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If in EU: make a GDPR complaint. Unsubscribing should be instant and no more difficult than signing up

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Can I use a VPN to permanently pretend I'm in the EU?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

As far as most websites are concerned, yeah totally

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

"BONTO is selling your personal info to Google! Click this non-working link to opt out!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I'm so happy this site is still running.

It's an enduring artifact of when the Internet was still fun.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Email has a place. I always let my teams know that text, phone call, or IM / DM aren't professional ways to communicate.

The reason being is that it isn't externally travelable - you can't send it to the next recipient in a format that is accepted by most people.

Also I hate needing to check five or seven fucking messaging apps to get all of the info consolidated. Send a goddamned email with everything once the thought is finished.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Email is also fantastically based for "getting it in writing" when you're getting abused / exploited at work.

Printing or downloading emails as evidence? Easy peasy.

Extracting message chains from some ridiculously long Slack/Discord/WhatsApp/whatever proprietary messenger app? Pulling teeth. Usually involves a ton of screenshotting.

When I worked at a public library I used to have people screenshotting ridiculously long Facebook messenger chains because their lawyer demanded it all be printed out...and sometimes they'd demand the printouts faxed.

(Usually divorce cases. Sad.)

Absolute insanity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

What sort of team setting are you in that your whole team doesn't have a single IM messaging platform that everyone in your company has?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Meanwhile:

No, I don't like e-mails, they're all spam, I only have an account to register other accounts. Why can't we continue our chat here on Natziapp (formerly known as Chatter)? Yes, I know, it's full of nazis, and stuff, but if we convince him hard enough, he could change for the better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

BONTO! Has been turned into a cube

Click here to unsubscribe to the cube

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