[tacostakohashi]

Because it became full of spam, obscene and illegal material.

For all their faults, big tech do mostly moderate their sites to the extent you won't find illegal things there.

[lordkrandel]

Better than 24h ads and mind manipulation. I can address scam and spams better than consumerism burning my soul.

[Someone]

Are you sure? The real picture is significantly worse than what you see in your inbox.

About half of all email messages are spam nowadays (https://www.statista.com/statistics/420400/spam-email-traffi...), and that’s less than ten years ago.

[lordkrandel]

Yeah, and I use email for work everyday, and it's used as the main way of authentication in the free web... anyway! I guess it will change now with this "age verification" thing that will put a barcode and a chain on your neck and bring you to the Trumpywood Teslapark dystopia they're sorta building.

[cmacleod4]

There's a lot less spam since Google Groups disconnected last year. Good text-based providers like https://www.eternal-september.org/ also filter out spam and don't carry the binary groups where porn and piracy is found.