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Matthew
@matthew
Fast forward ten years. Is anyone using email still?
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@matthew
I think about the things I use email for: - signing in / up - communicating with ppl i know - newsletters - notifications - spam / flyers OTOH we have the tech to replace these things and yet we haven’t OTOH I use email sparingly and begrudgingly, and would get rid of it in a heartbeat if everyone else weren’t on
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Matthew
@matthew
Messaging does seem like a more efficient, fun, and ephemeral way of communicating. Why doesn’t email look more like a messaging app? I don’t buy that there’s something in the current UX/UI of email that is inherent or natural. Is messaging not just a better interface in every way?
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@matthew
also, it looks like the folks at odd lots read my mind: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/odd-lots/id1056200096?i=1000596697685
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@arammughalyan
Yes. Just as we still use post mail. But email will be on blockhain.
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@nonlinear.eth
related: fast forward ten years, is anyone using passwords still? email and auth are still pretty tightly coupled. i believe email will continue to be used so long as passwords are. relying on phone numbers alone, which can change frequently, is not as robust as email imo. mass adoption of sc wallets could change this
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@futureartist
Yes. Top-3 protocols. Things come and go but email is king.
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@mxvoid
Yes. The long tails in tech are looooooong. To this day, people still use Fortran, COBOL, and floppy disks.
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@pugson
absolutely. email hasn’t replaced letters yet, still a long way to go
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Alberto Elias
@alberto
I was discussing this with a friend recently. Some people using it? Yup, just like people use fax today. But I don't think that everybody will be using email like they are now.
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@gm8xx8
emails will evolve imo..phone numbers now those I don’t see people using in 10years, or at least I hope not.
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Eddie Wharton
@eddie
yes, but they still complain about it
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@dcposch.eth
if u fast backward 10 years, or 20, or even 30! people were asking the same question
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@benersing
@perl future of tech
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Greg
@greg
@remindme email matt in 10 years
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@boscolo.eth
💯 A business needs to collect info from you so it can communicate with you in the future, which does it choose? 1. SMS: 5.1B mobile #'s (still growing) 2. Email: 4.1B email addresses (still growing) 3. Facebook: 2.9B users (no longer growing) 4. Many long tails... Maybe one day an FC ID will be the answer? �
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Elise Swopes
@swopes
I love email lol
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@payton
My money is on Postgres open source still having all conversations on email lists
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@benbodhi
I hope not, I’ve pretty much completely stopped using email except to sign up where they still ask for one.
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@wake.eth
Yes. Front end won't meaningfully change, even if the backend is completely transformed. Email defines and enforces its niche.
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