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Trying to de-google and looking for an alternative to Gmail.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yep. It was a fun ooh look what I can do that I have exactly zero people to communicate with using those features.

In the same vein, not using Google is similarly silly. Most of my personal contacts use Gmail or o365 so they still get a copy of my email anyway. But at least this way my money isn't going to them and nobody's scanning my inbox to advertise to me (โ˜ž๏พŸใƒฎ๏พŸ)โ˜ž