On the Death of E-Mail

I host a simple e-mail server, for my personal use.  Most of what it receives is Chinese spam trying
to sell me a fake product, or to extort me in some way.  After that, it receives messages concerning
some account I have; I receive almost no e-mail from men, and know no one personally who uses e-mail
for anything except account management.  My personal server is also insufficient for other personas,
and so I've e-mail accounts under the cock.li domains managed by Vincent Canfield, who does so well.
Unfortunately, a cartel prevents my messages from the cock.li domains from reaching their recipients
in most cases, and the same cartel has centralized e-mail to the point that whitelisting the domains
of providers has become a reasonable approach to many; this cartel forced me to make an account with
ProtonMail against my better judgment, as an acquaintance's very detailed analysis has made obvious:
https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/email

The prime perversion of ProtonMail is how they offer not real e-mail protocol access even for money.
It's curated entirely through WWW dumbfuckery and, while they make it easy to let e-mail in, letting
it out is another matter, of course; in every case, the client must run their particular code, which
may fake access to the real e-mail protocols even, and which runs only under particular systems with
particular requirements.  As with other lying cocksuckers, they do this in the name of ``security''.
It occurred to me this is where Internet protocols go to die, where they're dismembered piecewise in
such ways, and it occurred to me I don't particularly care anymore.  I can't claim e-mail to be dear
to me, it's nothing more than old, and I'll discard it at the first opportunity; it matters not, but
it's another sign of contractions in the Internet, another sign that things are closing and becoming
more impersonal, with fewer and fewer interactions between men.  Even now, I'm often prohibited from
communicating with others, for they list no contact methods besides accounts with some business, and
I no longer care.  I may acquiesce, or I may ignore them, depending on my disgust with the business.

As with all ``technology'' companies, the ``business model'' of ProtonMail is surveillance, not what
they claim it to be; I've begrudgingly read the documentation on how to use their specialized client
to backup my messages, but it occurred to me such is a good time to ban accounts they've yet to know
sufficiently well, and I began to grow concerned about this possibility.  I paid those motherfuckers
five dollars for a ``better'' account, which doesn't even offer the fake e-mail protocol access, and
now they've fully identified me, I know.  Still, they'd probably known me well at this point anyway.

I like the idea of throwaway software, software to be discarded at the earliest inconvenience, but I
now like the idea of throwaway protocols also.  Perhaps this is the solution to the death of e-mail,
as it's clear to me nothing that comes after will have both the same level of use and open nature of
a true Internet protocol.  Corporations forever poison wells and otherwise destroy public goods, and
prevent new such goods from coming to be; the Internet itself may fall to them.  This approach could
work nicely: Men can communicate the details of their custom communication protocols at a level some
machine wouldn't understand, and it can be simple enough to leave for dead once some problem arises.
This won't work for contacting normal people, and e-mail will live for a while yet, but this thought
certainly appeals to me in preparation for that dark future coming.  May a thousand protocols bloom.
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