Comment on Giving up on selfhosted email / Any sane email setups?
ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 9 months agoEh, I guess it’s a Ship of Theseus kind of thing. So much in the core is roten that if we change it you could argue it will be something different.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sure, but my point is… sending electronic messages, or electronic mail; why would this practice die?
ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 9 months ago
Traditional snail mail has died. For bills and other important documents there are better, digital, solutions out there. Mail has too many security issues to be the answer for that. What do you get by email today that couldn’t be chat message, an entry in a RSS feed, part of a social media feed or a to do item of some sort? 95% of my mail box is newsletters and ads. The rest is order confirmations from various sites. But none of that needs to be emails imo.
The only real, proper use case, these days is work related communication. But even there chat is often the better tool and email lacks because it’s fundamentally insecure and to make it secure you run into the problem of having to set it up between domains, and if you’re already doing that kind of work why not decide on a more secure by design communications channel?
I think in the future communication solutions like Matrix that can talk to (virtually) all other solutions will enable us to move away from email, but it won’t happen until we get Matrix like solutions for task management such that I can send someone a task without having to care about which solution they use at X company, and it will still land in that system. Once we have something like that mail won’t have anything going for it. That really is the final use case.