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This article makes some great points why e-mail is still the go-to means of communication: https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20250926
In particular, messengers have a "streaming problem": you need to check half a dozen platforms one after the other to stay on top of things and frankly it's a terrible way to organize one's communication channels.
@seanfobbe Nice article and I fully agree. Sadly E-Mail has one annoying downside: Self hosting is rather complicated as far as I can tell.
I run my own Matrix instance, which is quite easy. I would be curious to have a closer look at @delta but do not have the time at the moment. Even the pre-configured setup looks much more complicated than my Matrix setup.
@achim True, but for e-mail there are some good value-aligned providers, e.g. Posteo: https://posteo.de/en
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