> And that's totally fine. People should not treat IT services as something reliable,

Problem is the "society" around us (for lack of a better word) treats IT services as something reliable, see how more and more countries go digital/electronic only when it comes to payments or relationship with the government.

Exactly. that's why governments love IT and push it - they weaponise it against citizens.

Websites & apps treat your e-mail or phone number as your identity. Is it ideal? No, but it's reality.

Until everyone can agree on a better system, your e-mail is your online identity across countless websites. This makes losing your e-mail (with no customer support to regain access) a huge vulnerability in everyone's personal life.

Then don't use it? If there would be more reluctance against ubiquitous (and pointless) IT services, perhaps the situation with overreliance wouldn't have happened.

I dont know why you get down voted because you are absolutely right.

I would go even further and demand regulators to define standards to enable migration or self hosting.

Unfortunately HN crowd is more and more resembling reddit communities, where emotional downvoting is a way to express themselves instead of maintaining well argumentative discussion. Doesn't surprise me anymore