It’s not that I am a youngster shunning it for snapchat or tiktok etc., but I have come to realize that I basically stopped using email, other than as a (bad) 2fa solution and notification service (and the odd mailing list).

Even at work it has become basically a pure notification service for the internal platform and a place to send the odd document or request to a 3rd party…

I realize that I am probably living in a bubble in that regard, but I actually recently met people reasonably tech affine who claimed they don’t even have an email address?!

So for a while I have been thinking of just configuring an one-way email to XMPP forwarding service (with auto-response) and be done with email ;)

How do you feel about email? Is it still important for your daily communication?

Edit: So a few days later I guess the summary is:

  • Many people still use it for work / unversity (only);
  • Some people still really use it a lot, but mainly as a “since everything else sucks even more” option;
  • Quite a few (but probably still a minority) are like me and effectively stopped using email.
  • kazutrash
    2•3 years ago

    i still use email as an universal communication channel for me, so i don’t to have many messengers at once. if anyone wants to talk with me, i just sent my address to them. ez.

    also hosting an email server for myself has being an alternative, but i have no clue how to even start. I’m wide open to suggestions. VERY WIDE OPEN

    • Jakob :lemmy:
      1•3 years ago

      i have my own email server. based on debian with dovecot (for imap) and exim. with the debian defaults you can even run a basic system for email.

      there are pletiora howtos out there. just take a quite new one and try it for yourself.

      but be aware, to not setup a spam-server… test it for open relaying.

      running a email-server is quite easy. running a secure email-server is quite difficult!