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Having an old Gmail account and a current fastmail one, i disagree.
by Semaphor 4y ago
Having an old Gmail account and a current fastmail one, i disagree.
- pixelesque 4y agoAre they the same target email address though? If not, surely that's not a fair test if the gmail account has been around for 10+ years or so? (I have the same situation, an 18-year old gmail account and a 6 year old fastmail account, but the reason I don't get ANY spam at all in the fastmail account is I only use it for certain things and it's much newer, so I'd argue at least in my case, that's not a fair comparison).
- massaman_yams 4y agoGmail is subject to specific targeting by spammers in a way that fastmail is not. The returns for spending weeks or months finding a niche way through Gmail's filters are justified by the number of gmail addresses that can be targeted, which is probably 3 orders of magnitude larger than the total number of fastmail subscribers.
- Semaphor 4y agoGood point, though it's still in favor of fastmail (which, as a paid service, will always be several magnitudes lower in users)
- alex_lav 4y agoI was on fastmail for about a year. It didn't filter nearly as much, and Fastmail as a service was constantly experiencing outages. Pretty much weekly. I would say it's an almost unanimously inferior service.
- Semaphor 4y agoI had 1 outage in 7 years, 2 more i read about while I was sleeping …
- alex_lav 4y agoDid you use it from dec 2021 to dec 2022?
- nsteel 4y agoI did use it during that period (and still do). I've never seen an outage. Are they regional outages? Or do I just go to bed at the right time to consistently avoid them? But the spam filter isn't as good as Google's, 100% agree with that.
- alex_lav 4y ago> Are they regional outages? I would guess so? It was days. Many days of "No mail was lost but access is down" messages.
- Semaphor 4y agoSounds like some super weird, extremely local issue. And yes, I’ve been using it as main mail account for (after checking) almost 9 years now, so that includes that period.
- alex_lav 4y ago> extremely local issue. I don't think so. They posted on twitter about it as a genera purpose outage. Anyway. I'm glad they exist and I'm glad you've found value in them. I just couldn't continue paying for an email provider I could never access.
- xedrac 4y agoI can't think of a single time that fastmail was down for me in the last 3 years. But I remember gmail being down during that time.