[rglullis]

Parent comment is the perfect example of how we got so used with dealing with shitty and user-hostile systems. We've been dealing with walled gardens for almost a generation now, it's like they don't even understand that it is possible to interact with a remote system without having everything in one centralized database.

[FormerBandmate]

Gmail isn't a walled garden but it doesn't have a 20k user limit

[rglullis]

It would have if they were not profiting of all your data.

Besides, that's not the point. The point is that you don't need to have a Gmail account to reach and be reached by Gmail users.

[phs318u]

People have forgotten how email works.