People these days look weird at you if don't use Gmail so you can't see their Google Calendar invite or some other thing that only works with Google... People are literally pushing tech monopolies.

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I still see lots of different emails out there, outlook/hotmail is still huge, yahoo occasionally, icloud in the US.

Among my techy friend circle all of us have either our own self hosted mail, a 'privacy' company email, or something in the middle.

All to say, I don't think it's that uphill of a battle for the very large percentage of Internet users to accept the way federation works.

[–] Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm a student and don't know anyone who doesn't use Gmail here... Guess that's the result of Google dominating education.

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

At what level? I get a student email from my college (outlook based) as do the professors, though communication is primarily through Canvas. So that's what I see most often in that context.

I think a lot of people have Gmail incidentally for things like YouTube and other Google account stuff, very few people know you can even bring your own mail.

[–] DBosiers@social.vivaldi.net 2 points 1 week ago

@Octagon9561 @isaaclyman worse some big email sending services like sendgrid embedded in a lot solutions don't work with privacy enhanced e-mail services.