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> and will cost you a few dollars a month Dead on arrival.
by lenerdenator 6mo ago
> and will cost you a few dollars a month
Dead on arrival.
- AstroBen 6mo agoIf you don't feel that's worth it you can use Gmail, yeah.
- lenerdenator 6mo agoIt's not just me; most people won't. That's the issue.
- AstroBen 6mo agoWhy is it an issue? I don't care what other people do with their email.
- okanat 6mo agoDemocracy is the style of ruling where majority's ignorance dominates over the vulnerable. You will be eventually forced to use internet and forced to use the way your government wants you to use it.
- AstroBen 6mo agoYeah, fair point. They're certainly trying to push it in that direction but so far there are still alternatives. I've seen age verification get a hell of a lot of pushback so that's encouraging.
- catlikesshrimp 6mo agoBecause when most people use the one email host, they neglect all other users. Even my yahoo email is regarded as second grade citizen now. A hospital straight told me they refuse all yahoo addresses.
- bigstrat2003 6mo agoI mean, that's certainly retarded, but most businesses aren't that stupid in how they choose to run things. I've never, not even once, run into a business who cares what your email is. They will use any address you want, whether you have a known provider, or self host.
- lenerdenator 6mo agoI can set up all of the personal services I want. The average person does not want to do that. They do not have the skills, and it does not add value for them to do so 99.999999% of the time. The tools and offerings we're given are built to fulfill the needs of the greatest number of people. For better or worse, those people are not people who want to mess with the infrastructure around their email.
- hedora 6mo agoEven if your time is worth $0, you're paying far more than a few dollars a month to have a google account. Price discrimination from third party vendors is probably running you 5-10% of your credit card bill every month.
- lenerdenator 6mo agoThat's opaque to most users. If it weren't, then Google's business model would not be viable.
- xp84 6mo agoI know this ^ seems unreasonable, but I know you’re right. Mostly because of conditioning: it’s been 25 years now that free webmail is the way Gen-X, Y, Z, and future generations do email. Boomers and the older Gen-Xers may still be hanging onto an ISP address, if they haven’t moved too much since the 1990s. After all that, plus with their email addresses being the opposite of portable, there is no limit to how much crap people will take, when the alternative is learning a little bit about domain registration and DNS, and paying $60 a year for Fastmail or whatever. Email, they believe, is supposed to be free as in beer. Sad but true. Also, confession: I used to use first name @ full name . com and got tired of the confused looks and typos when I had to give it out, so now I use a six-character Gmail with numbers so that it’s just like people expect.