For what reason? Email these days is basically just a machine for marketing and identity verification, and the latter can be done better by other solutions
Plus, despite the fact that email is designed to be open, it has been perverted by big tech into an effectively closed system, as your post makes reference to. I see no real reason to keep email going, when a better less centralized system could be built to replace it.
Might I ask why you think it's a shit take? I'm genuinely surprised so many people seem to think email needs to be defended
I mean this meme does a good job of explaining my biggest grievance, despite being a theoretically open protocol, it's been lassoed into a nearly closed network controlled by big tech.
Beyond that, email(SMTP) is nearly 50 years old, and it has anachronistism that show
Outside of corporate life, email in the modern world is basically just a tool for marketing and identity verification, and that sucks, because I remember when it was more than that.
Something new, that doesn't have the anachronism of a nearly 50 year old protocol.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think there is currently a good replacement, but I think one should be developed.
Its strange you think that I'm siding with a proprietary solution, when email is effectively controlled by major tech companies, which is one of its biggest flaws.
Because they effectively forced everyone to use it by getting rid of the only decent voice assistant.
I'd be willing to bet enough Linux users use anti-fingerprinting tools to make the statistics super inaccurate anyway.
Yet another reason to use Grayjay.
I've heard good things about the xtink stuff, and they have buttons.
Get a load of this guy that can afford backups
So glad I don't know who jellyroll is.
Yes, that's true, but most people aren't going to host an email server, because it's a pain(I know, I administrate 3 of them), which means that Google, Apple, Microsoft, Proton, and the other big tech companies will always control the majority of email accounts, and that gives them effective control over the entire network. Our ability to self host servers outside of big techs bubble doesn't make the bubble go away.