Would you ditch emails forever if you could?
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Discussion
depends
i think that may be difficult to accomplish but sure philosophically, yes
Why do you think it is hard to ditch?
because the world uses email and we are in the world.
i get receipts, etc. on email, or email questions to businesses who only use email, trying to change that is like trying to walk waist deep through partly set cement
it would take a lot of effort to convince everyone and in the end we don't convince or change others' minds, they have to do it themselves.
But how about, you just don't own a mailbox, but they can send you mails?
It is already half way through.
then I can't have a receipt or email them
if I need to interact with them then I have to use what they are using
i orderd QR code stamps and the company i ordered from use email, i had to have a back and forth with them so i used email
I was thinking about being able to recieve and send emails but through nostr.
the nostr protocol has problems like this also... lists, for example, these things can get enormous and have a problem of sometimes disappearing because of funny relay and client implementations - it's my view that the solution there would be to add a CRDT type for list edits, and presumably ones that support it will also have caching so the bandwidth problem is solved for users who care and client devs who care
the same will happen eventually with email
email is a dead end, it is controlled by like 5 companies now and a defcon 1 data leak is just a matter of time, and a secure, encrypted alternative will become desirable to users
most companies already have a presence on X that they use for customer support, it is not a hard task if enough users for a service are on nostr and getting these companies to pick it up
yep and people talked about it before and nothing changed but yes it is possible but remote
for example companies that are on X or FB only i won't interact with because i do not want to be on either of those platforms
I think Nostr does have a chance but it's remote
it's only 18 months since this started... it took 40 years from email's inception in the mid 60s until wide adoption
it will just take time for some places to catch on, where other places will get it early
the other thing is there's really only technical reasons why you can't have a nostr/email bridge anyhow, someone just has to build it, and wedge it into the crack
could happen
I still think it won't but that doesn't mean i am against not using email
there was talk like this in the 1990s and 2000s, nothing happened
if it happens then great! and by me and you using Nostr we are aiming in that direction