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> and there's little you can do about it I mean, if people as a whole stopped using Gmail, then this would stop being an issue.
by jszymborski 3y ago
> and there's little you can do about it
I mean, if people as a whole stopped using Gmail, then this would stop being an issue.
- doublerabbit 3y agoIts easy to do, in theory. Gmail worked on a basis of exclusive invites. Hype a short name like "hnmail" with a fancy UI. Setup an invite system and you could be the next email provider. Just as Canonical hyped with free Ubuntu cd's. I've stopped using gmail ever since they disabled my account wolfcub@gmail for no reason. never will and won't tell me why. Apparently it's "inclusive", whatever that means. Way to disgruntle a 17 year old me, so I've been hosting my own ever since.
- warkdarrior 3y agoCool story, bro. Do you also avoid emailing people with Gmail addresses, or posting on mailing lists with Gmail subscribers, or emailing business with a Google Workspace service?
- doublerabbit 3y agoIf I can, yeah.
- greiskul 3y agoGmail is not just email. It is all the space they give you so you don't have to worry about emptying inboxes. It is the internal search so you can find an email from 5 years ago. It is labels. It is a mobile app that works smoothly, without any surprises. It is being able to give my parents that are not tech savy, something that works for them, without needing me to help them. It is even being able to set up the google inactive account manager to DO give access to my brother in case something happens to me, so my family can respecfully access my memories when I'm gone. This is not easy.
- megous 3y agoIt is easy. Just use another similar service without a history of AI research or interest in such.
- doublerabbit 3y agoI disagree. It is easy. The only thing that stops is that Google has resources to splash on engineers to build such a product. Thats all it is, money. Everything that google can do, exists in the opensource space.
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