Killing Gmail would be like killing search or youtube, they would NOT dare.
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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Ain't nobody killing off the golden goose!
Yeah, I'd drop Fi, Pixle, and use of Google in a second. Gmail is the backbone of everything Google is. Had it since day 1 and will have it until it disappears, and then I will disappear into the woods forever.
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see if they were even remotely trustworthy or even rational no one would ever even entertain the possibility of Gmail being discontinued. for any other party this would be laughable. with Google it's plausible.
Next week: Fires 60% of the gmail staff
The week after: Google introduces AI Mail that will receive and automatically respond to all mail. This will happen without the users' consent or knowledge. In fact, users won't be able to access their mail anymore at all "for security reasons".
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For now.
Sometimes those rumors are spread by the OG to test the waters....
One thing that's very clear to me is that when a tech company says something is "here to stay," it doesn't actually mean it's here to stay.
The biggest thing holding me to Google is Gmail and photos.
They scrap Gmail and I'm literally out. No more Google accounts, except to use an android.
Google offers very little value to the consumer these days
You don't need a Google account to use Android.
I bought a domain and started using it for all my email last year. It’s the best and I suggest it to everyone.
The combination of your own domain, Fastmail, and Bitwarden is powerful.
You can move email services by changing a few DNS records and Fastmail has an API that Bitwarden hits to create new masked email addresses using your domain so every site gets a different email address. Start getting spam? You know exactly who leaked/sold your info and you can now send that address right to the trash.
Is google photos free?
Some services only accept whitelisted domains for accounts sadly.
I've been using a personal domain for over 20 years. I've never had a service reject my email domain.
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It's free if you stay within the data limit. For anyone interested in self-hosting, immich is getting pretty mature these days.
Keep in mind the maintainers themselves advise that they make changes often and this should not be the only place you keep your photos.
I just started using it and the facial recognition feature works very well.
I’ve become obsessed with S3 compliant storage lately so I was going to suggest Wasabi, B2, or Storj as a replacement for Google storage.
What about my "Gmail is here to stay" tshirt is making you think Gmail isnt here to stay?
Why does anyone think Google would shut down Gmail? You'd have to be stupid to think that they would shut down the most used email service on earth, one that is deeply integrated into Google as an ecosystem.
Google does have a reputation for unnecessary and/or prematurely killing everything it makes so I wouldn't blame people for believing an email that looked like it was from Google saying that Gmail is shutting down in August
Google shuts down projects so regularly that I just wouldn't adopt anything new they make because it's not going to be around in 5 years. The core products: search, email, youtube, chrome, android, are decades old now and I wonder if the company can survive shutting down any of them.
I got bit in the ass by Google when I decided to try using their domain service and they decided to nuke it and sell it to Squarespace. Google domains was so good too. I jumped ship to Porkbun before my domains were completely locked into Squarespace so I managed to get out before it was too late thankfully
They shut down services that aren’t profitable. Gmail is highly profitable as it’s an important lever to identify people’s interests, which they use to sell ads at a higher price. They’d have to be stupid to shut it down.
It'd almost definitely kill Google if they were to kill Gmail. Gmail, YouTube, and Android are pretty much what brings people to use Google services in the first place. I was just referencing the people that panicked when they saw the fake email going around that looked like it was from Google themselves about sunsetting Gmail. Google's reputation didn't help quell the panic which is why they had to come out to the public saying they won't shut down Gmail
Well spoken, I mostly agree. Although I wouldn’t go so far and say that shutting down Gmail would kill Google - their search is still pretty popular, too. Their horizontal integration in systems does play a huge role in the search‘s popularity though.
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Exactly what a company about to shut down their email product would say.
They are not going to stop their spying. The email ain't going no where. Suckers.
Exactly what a plant for a company about to shut down their email product would say.
I subscribe to tuta.com so say what your witty notions purport.
Any of these large business coming out to explicitly say "this will not happen" is concerning.
I mean this would be insane. Gmail is probably the most used email service in the world, and even though I'm not a Google fanboy, it's also probably the best.
What are people gonna use? Outlook? Fuck that. I only use that piece of trash because of my job.
gmail has a fine website but email is a commodity service, hundreds of replacements exist and could be used.
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Especially Google who is famous for randomly getting bored of developing and then suddenly cancelling services
Exactly, it's like if a company said "We're not going to launch a bomb, trust us"... It would totally mean that they're considering launching a bomb
I mean, unless there was a hoax that led to widespread belief that they were gonna launch a bomb
Its suspicious if its out of nowhere, but less so if its in response to an existing rumour
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Not a problem. I use my Domain so can easily move elsewhere. And I have a backup of all my mail in my email client.
This is good advice for anyone considering to move out of Gmail.
Do not just move to another provider, use your own domain and you'll never have to worry about changing your email address everywhere
I'm assuming just to host it and send through an SMTP provider? Even in the self hosting community whenever I see someone ask about running their own email server the answer is usually "don't". I think because dealing with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC isn't usually worth the effort.
Nearly every email provider (even Google’s paid version) lets you use a custom domain, self-hosting is optional and probably not recommend for most.
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