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Email is still great for DMs if you only use it for talking to individuals, and not to sign up to things (lemmy.world)
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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Except its completely unencrypted

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

So is regular mail. Should we stop sending physical letters?

If it's that important, write your email in code.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

So is regular mail. Should we stop sending physical letters?

Yeah its a waste of paper

If it's that important, write your email in code.

Or simply use a e2e encrypted service that does that infinitely better than u ever could urself.

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, it's not without faults, so ProtonMail and similar may be a good compromise, or encrypting and sending longer documents. Ideally one day email will be rebuilt from the ground up with encryption.

Also to address your later comments, E2EE messengers are great, but short form writing is simply a different use case from long form.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, your connection to your email provider is encrypted (I hope!) - probably with TLS

Your email provider will communicate with the receivers email server over an encrypted connection (probably TLS again)

Your recipient connects to their provider over a secure connection too!

Yes, your email companies can read it, but that is the case with lots of IM providers too.....

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Why would u not use an e2e encrypted im service. Thats the bare minimum.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 2 points 1 day ago

More widespread adoption of WKD (https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKDHosting) would be fantastic.