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Email is still great for DMs if you only use it for talking to individuals, and not to sign up to things

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fossphi@lemm.ee
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I really like email. Something about its free as in freedom nature/protocol fills me up with joy as I fire up my email clients! It’s just nice and warm compared to all the corpo bullshit messengers. Sadly, Google and Microsoft are trying their best to lock down email. But I believe it’s gonna outlast their shenanigans, hopefully. Meanwhile, I have my trusty local email clients to keep me company

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Chozo@fedia.io
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Sadly, Google and Microsoft are trying their best to lock down email.

What do you mean?

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nobody158@sh.itjust.works
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Hosting your own email server has gotten extremely difficult and time consuming.

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fossphi@lemm.ee
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Very solid reasons mentioned by @nobody158@sh.itjust.works in the sibling comment.

Another issue is that they forced people towards top posting which combined with the rise of html email led to the decline of plain text email, which really sucks for not just privacy but also accessibility

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