Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service
1984@lemmy.today 1 day agoNo 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.
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 1 day 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 19 hours 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 19 hours ago
Oh, that’s a very good point! Makes you look at this proposal in a completely different way.