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Re:Tell HN: GitHub is down again by WesolyKubeczek on Saturday November 27, 2021 @06:47PM (#29364772)
It was still rad back in the 1990s and 2000s, then came in people who think that if they repeat a bullshit sentence loudly enough and pushily enough, people at large will equate it with truth: "Email is too inconvenient to use".

I'd say those people do have a point about how manipulation tactics work, but email being inconvenient is bullshit.

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Re:Tell HN: GitHub is down again by tentacleuno on Monday November 29, 2021 @03:18AM (#29377502)
What's inconvenient is using proprietary Electron apps just for communicating, while not being able to communicate on my phone without downloading and installing a proprietary app.

On the other hand, you have email: open-source clients are available for virtually every platform, it doesn't turn my laptop into an electric bar fire, it doesn't drain my phone's battery (or if it does, I could just install another client!), etc.

It's quite sad how something as beautiful as email is being replaced by corporate garbage like Teams, which comes bundled with Office 365 (and that's a whole 'nother crapfest). Uch.

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