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109 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 16h \ parent \ on: Would you pay to be able email someone? lightning
My private email leaked in 2010. Normal day 200 or so emails not counting automated crap. I don't read these, at all, and I don't understand why anyone still emails me. Sometimes i open the app and then I'm quickly cured when I see the unread stat. My business emails have whitelisted inboxes.
My security list email is the only one I have open 24/7. 95% is scams / slop / subpar journalists. I scan it quickly and then archive everything that isn't relevant. Of the 5% that I don't throw out immediately, another 95% is not actionable and bullshit.
Now, if you want to get my attention, you have my number. If you have my number you can send me a message on the appropriate app. If you're not one of the 5 whitelisted people on there, I will not notice that you're messaging me until I look. So you have to wait too.
Allowing people to buy my attention just means they feel self-important. I decide, not your money. You rich? Good, go spend it on something useful and leave me the fuck alone.
I decide, not your money.
This is a pretty awesome statement. Well said. Still, there is some point at which if you receive enough volume of spam, it is too much of a burden to sift through it all.
I am not a famous personage. Few people want to get in touch with me. Even so, my X DMs are destroyed with scam messages. So much so that I rarely really check them thoroughly because checking them means scrolling through endless Occasionally, I have missed messages from real people who I would have liked to interact with.
Email is slightly different (mostly because spam filters are pretty good) - but my wife had the experience where the tech support at her company was incompetent and managed to screw up their email so that messages from their domain got sent to spam in most clients.
I can see pay to email or DM as a hacky kind of solution to systems that don't work great right now.