Email is the most free, decentralized communication channel we have. It’s fully async, so you consume it at the pace you want. What makes you against emails? Just curious
My primary thoughts on exiting email came after reading Paul Graham's excellent essay on email being nothing more than a to-do list that ANYBODY can add on to [†].
SPAM-rant: I personally feel that a system needs to exist/replace email... which uses some sort of low-tx-fee crypto to "cost money" for each and every email sent. The recipients could then "refund" such fees, optionally & consentually, when they've determined that sender worthy of free-contact.
Everybody else should have to pay to call/text [Ω]. Since no such system publicly exists: I opt-out.
[†] personal anxiety is my biggest reason for hating inbox-opening
Oh yes, that's a good point. Email as a todo list is pretty horrible. I myself have high anxiety and just accepted I will never be able to effectively use emails in the todo list way.
I've been noodling with concepts for what I see as my ideal email client and orienting it towards "conversations" instead of "todo list" is a key aspect I want
I got a pager and a landline [¬]. Bots haven't figured out how to interface with numeric paging systems, yet; nor have most meatsicle operators/salesmen (but it's easy to teach your friends&family). #no-apps #no-location-services #no-text
Should anybody in my contact list need to "email something," we do so while on a phonecall via a temp-burner receiving address (auto-deletes after 10 minutes).
== no email to-do list
If later somesuchbody says "did you get my email, I sent it yesterday?" I can legitimately and verifiably respond "nope."
[¬] the latter, recently; service isn't "on" yet but soon... will not have a ringer, page-only
SPAM-rant: I personally feel that a system needs to exist/replace email... which uses some sort of low-tx-fee crypto to "cost money" for each and every email sent. The recipients could then "refund" such fees, optionally & consentually, when they've determined that sender worthy of free-contact.
Everybody else should have to pay to call/text [Ω]. Since no such system publicly exists: I opt-out.
[†] personal anxiety is my biggest reason for hating inbox-opening
[Ω] e.g: similar to postal mailings