No its never going to disappear. If you are referring to people using slack and chat apps, those are locked in walled gardens where your messages cant ever leave.
Email can be moved anywhere easily.
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0x0@programming.dev 1 week agoIt’s a saturated market and email is starting to disappear (it’ll take years, but the signs are there).
They’d be better using it on the browser and ditching other products.
1984@lemmy.today 1 week ago
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 1 week ago
On top of that, people still use email to sign up for these gardens. Technically, you could use your phone number too. I wonder how far could you take this idea of living completely without email.
Job applications, and several other sign ins still depend on email, so that’s going to be a bit of a hitch.
fishpen0@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah and then we can really go hard destroying the lives of people without phone access.
I work for a healthcare company that serves the under privileged and right now in most cities it’s easier to guarantee someone has email than a consistent phone number thanks to free WiFi hotspots. You can miss a phone payment and still read your email even if you’re cut off from cellular service.
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 1 week ago
Oh, that’s a very good point! Makes you look at this proposal in a completely different way.
moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Email won’t disappear sooner or later. It’s a huge part of communication between companies, nonprofit, state, etc. It may be less between people or with consumers. But, it still is widely use otherwise.
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m curious, not bashing. What signs have you seen that lead you to believe email is dying?
0x0@programming.dev 1 week ago
It’s insecure by default and Kids These Days™ prefer messaging apps, which have boomed in the last decade.
Time will tell.surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So… Exactly how it was 20 years ago. Kids Those Days used AIM and Yahoo Messenger instead of slack and discord.
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What do you make of the use of email in the business world? You’re right that quite a bit of that has turned into instant messaging as well, ie I text my boss instead of sending them mail but it definitely feels like that’s going away a lot slower if not expanding
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Email is a must for between businesses. Having said that, lots of internal communication is findingther channels, like Teams, Slack, and so on.
Kualdir@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Any business2business or consumer2business communication will likely still happen over email for a very long time
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
email is starting to disappear
The fuck it is lol, do you have any idea how much email is used in literally everything? How old are you?
scratchee@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Email isn’t going anywhere. It’s the ipv4 of communication. You can list 100 things bad about it and none of it matters, too many things are now built on top of it, no competitor can possibly have a chance without first reimplementing email, and then they’re just adding extensions which everyone else ignores, and email continues.
The more plausible threat to email is that it gets siloed into the top 5 or 6 providers and everyone else gets filtered out as spam (ie you need gmail, hotmail, etc or your emails will never reach anyone)
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 week ago
The big providers problem is already true, but DMARC and DKIM mitigated that problem.