E-mail barely hanging on between spam, broken HTML and an oligopoly of providers.
this post was submitted on 18 May 2025
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The old internet was a crucible for robust software. Slow, small, unreliable, the very protocols that send data over the wire and through the air had to build in all kinds of fail-safe features to even approach usefulness. From this we got things like email (POP & SMTP), internet relay chat (IRC), and the world-wide web (HTTP). Things used to be so bad, that these technologies endure as extremely over-built in the modern era. And if things get worse, it will keep working as it always has. They'll probably stick with us because of that.
This is why I kind of hate microblogging platforms. This could just be part of a conversation, but shown of context every post is turned into a soundbite and takes on levels of faux-profundity that they can’t possibly support. Yeah, email has been around forever; so what?
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I'm using cpanel email and it's terrible. Can someone recommend something cheap but better than cpanel?
What's wrong with cpanel?
Some places block email coming from my cpanel email.
If by something else email will out live I agree
deltachat is awesome