I have completely stopped using google services and software on my personal devices (even have lineageos + microg on my phone. The problem is that I can’t just explain to the technically uneducated people that I changed mail providers. How should I go about doing this?
God I fucking hate email so much. Why can’t we all agree to move to literally anything else?
I hate it too, I need it and hate it. But it is the standard and honestly if we all switched to whatever else, we would hate that too. The mechanism isn’t the problem, imo, it’s the requirement of maintenance and monitoring.
Yes, that’s the problem. A standard invented 40 years ago. One we’ve never been able to move away from.
Absolutely not. There are a dozen different protocols that could solve the problems inherent in email.
None of those are problems for me.
What is it that you hate about email, then? You’ve piqued my curiosity.
Threading and formatting. Trying to decipher who said what and when. The increasingly ridiculous size of signatures in every email. Being dropped from an email thread because someone hit reply instead of reply-all. Or the opposite. Being unable to leave email chains. Creating a new email chain every time you send a new subject. Trying to find absolutely anything in my inbox due to the absolute disarray of it all.
Of course Gmail specifically introduces a whole other level of bullshit. Like a completely broken search function, and the inability to block anyone (spammers), the “all mail” option not showing all mail, folders being collapsed in the sidebar and fucking react emojis…