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Do you not have a job where you use email? Do you not get bank statements via email? Receipts? Updates from your HOA? Etc etc etc.

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MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Job uses slack, rocketchat or discord. I have a work email that is so separate from personal email that it basically doesn’t count (because there’s no spam there.) HOA and Bank sends old fashioned mail, and also isn’t critical to me as I have websites for both. Receipts I wouldn’t really consider communication, but even then most receipts I save personally.

Seriously, email is kind of old fashioned and isn’t really used for communication between real people. You can see how most of what you’re talking about is effectively “documents” and not real communication right?

Most I use email for discussion in 2025 is mailing lists but those are usually for old phogey FOSS projects.

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- reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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  - MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Let me ask you this way, why use lemmy at all if email forums are perfectly legitimate ways of communication? You could be on a mailing list right now, so why is activitypub even important?
    
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    Datz@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    “You could be using Discord, so why use Lemmy?”
    
    Different things, different use cases. More rapid communication is usually worse for archiving, can you conveniently find old discussions on Discord that weren’t pinned? What about Lemmy posts a year back that you didn’t save, but suddenly remembered?
    
    Emails are on the extreme end of the spectrum where you don’t expect a quick response, but there’s less of them to manage and they can be used for contacting strangers. I used them for asking about doctor appointments when calling doesn’t work.
    
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