It’s hard to find un-enshitified services, even just email. I managed to find a dozen or so ½ decent email providers. But they are only ½ decent. Many are shit in terms of reliability, probably as a side-effect of not being well funded. But then where are the discussions? I Lemmy-search for “onionmail” and only find a dozen hits.

Why is this? IMO it’s because there are just so many shitty options that they drown out the better options. Protonmail is the mainstream alternative to the notorious corporate garbage, but PM is a shit-show in its own right … CAPTCHAs and other anti-human obsticals.

We need decentralization, but the nasty side-effect is that it spreads an already small crowd so thin we can’t find each other in the universe.

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    25 days ago

    Sadly email is just a dead horse at this point. It’s usually not even the alternative provider’s fault that their service is unreliable.

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      25 days ago

      Yeah, email is dead to me for the most part.

      There are gov agencies and various other essential transactions that force people to use email. It’s easy to quit sending email but there are too many situations forcing ppl to supply an email address. If they put that little fucking red asterisk next to the email field on a webform, there is a gun to your head. You choices are to get service or walk. That’s where onionmail is handy. It can sometimes pass the syntax check, and then it’s dysfunctional to all but expert users (which is the idea).

      But indeed I send paper letters like crazy now and almost never email.