I what way? Are you talking about email lists or something like that? Please share some wisdom so I can think of email as of something more than just annoying spambox that corportations and governments use to spy on me.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've always had a real email and a spam email. I only give companies the spam email. That thing is overloaded with garbage. My real email is actually pretty clean as a result. Unfortunately, my wife has on occasion gave my email out when signing up for things, so a few junk emails still get to me usually from that. I would highly recommend this practice.

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I do that too... but sometimes its hard to tell which email I should use.

For example, if I create a patreon account to pay people - I'm giving financial info and accessing stuff that I actually care about - which suggests I use my 'real' email address. But on the other hand, the email address is shown to people I'm paying, and I don't necessarily want them contacting me in that way, or even know that that email address exists. As in, I might want to support them - but that doesn't mean I trust them to respect my privacy. So then maybe the spam email address is the way?

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago

Email is essentially only useful now when used with aliases. Even having a "spam email" can get your digital footprint linked to your identity and real contact info.

But otherwise, it's still necessary for longform written communication.

[–] Manmikey@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

All sorts of things are still useful with email, for instance my work sends my duty rosters to my personal email address (my preference so I don't have to log into work when I'm off duty) I get a reminder for my car service, confirmation that my online grocery shopping has been picked and when to expect delivery, confirmation of orders I've made and delivery dates times, where I live we have a management company and they communicate to residents by email, some 2FA checks come by email, I still find these things useful & prefer an email rather than endless push notifications on my mobile if that's an alternative, I don't allow email to notify my mobile either, I just check the inbox a couple of times a day.