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.
  • poVoq@lemmy.mlOP
    3·
    4 years ago

    Yes that is what I meant with “notifications”. I still have that a lot too, but that could be easily replaced with something else or forwarded to another service.

    • pingveno@lemmy.ml
      6·
      4 years ago

      While this is all true, email’s universality is a feature that no other service gets close to. It’s like English: it’s messy and there are better alternatives, but none of them have the same sort of crucial momentum.