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Part of the reason people like messaging apps is because messages are short an instant. Emails, even with optimise settings still aren’t instantaneous in the same way whats app signal or imessage is. Its also built for much longer text, which encourages lengthy messages. These factors make it feel cumbersome compared to messaging services in my opinion.

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But that's purely an UX problem. You can easily create an "email" app that works and looks as an instant messenger.

Delta Chat is superb. No affiliation, just a happy user.

Lobsters had some comments about this too, my understanding is that the way email is now is would be hopeless because it's not immediate. It should be possible to have a forum like experience with a tool like that, essentially a better email lists.

https://lobste.rs/s/4ydfpc/email_is_messenger_you_should_mig...

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