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Email is still great for DMs if you only use it for talking to individuals, and not to sign up to things
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Except its completely unencrypted
So is regular mail. Should we stop sending physical letters?
If it's that important, write your email in code.
Yeah its a waste of paper
Or simply use a e2e encrypted service that does that infinitely better than u ever could urself.
I mean, your connection to your email provider is encrypted (I hope!) - probably with TLS
Your email provider will communicate with the receivers email server over an encrypted connection (probably TLS again)
Your recipient connects to their provider over a secure connection too!
Yes, your email companies can read it, but that is the case with lots of IM providers too.....
Why would u not use an e2e encrypted im service. Thats the bare minimum.
Use GPG.
More widespread adoption of WKD (https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKDHosting) would be fantastic.
Yeah, it's not without faults, so ProtonMail and similar may be a good compromise, or encrypting and sending longer documents. Ideally one day email will be rebuilt from the ground up with encryption.
Also to address your later comments, E2EE messengers are great, but short form writing is simply a different use case from long form.