Yeah, no. There are many good examples of this, where you just have to use something and still criticize it. But Gmail is like the farthest away from that you can be. There are thousands of alternatives, and of which you can choose, and get basically exactly the same experience. It’s an open federated protocol; there is no reason at all to stay at the single worst instance that tries to monopolize the whole protocol and uses your data.
Ok, but-- even once you transition to a new service the old addresses are embedded in all kinds of places, user forums, documentation, git commits, etc. Just setting up and using a different service doesn’t make that go away.
Yeah, no. There are many good examples of this, where you just have to use something and still criticize it. But Gmail is like the farthest away from that you can be. There are thousands of alternatives, and of which you can choose, and get basically exactly the same experience. It’s an open federated protocol; there is no reason at all to stay at the single worst instance that tries to monopolize the whole protocol and uses your data.
Ok, but-- even once you transition to a new service the old addresses are embedded in all kinds of places, user forums, documentation, git commits, etc. Just setting up and using a different service doesn’t make that go away.