I disagree. Email is still perfectly usable and helpful because we simply filter out the commercial stuff. The fact that most internet discussion happens in extremely censored places is bad. Luigi Luigi Luigi. I want the rest of the world to change and this is another tool to help towards that end, not merely an escape.

Isn’t this just a bunch of little forums that interoperate nicely?

How is Firefox’s baggage anywhere close to homophobia and a crypto scam

It makes a difference if you signed up for the only instance early on, and now everyone assumes you’re a tankie.

You’d get an email address from your ISP. Early on you’d just dial the ISP, send/receive email, and then automatically hang up. College freshmen were assigned a school email address.

Eventually, “web mail” became popular because you could log in from any computer, like at the library.

By the time email became unavoidable, everyone had already been assigned at least one email address. It was seen as a major feature of the internet itself.

IMHO there’s still hope in p2p mesh networking. It can’t support high-bandwidth applications, but all the absolutely critical correspondence would work.

We can’t stop them from using Lemmy either. They’ll come.

But this time we can defederate from servers that tolerate intolerance.