Not to mention that your email is tied to your online identity in many ways when mostly every account you make asks for an email to use as your username, verify your account, or recover access to your lost account.
Handing over control of your online identity like that to a centralized third party when you could be cut off at any point [insert here any recent news about people wrongfully losing access to their Gmail account and not getting it reinstated] seems like the wrong solution to be allowed the privilege of sending email.
I guess the very least we could do to keep some control is to own (read: rent) your email domain you could move elsewhere in case you lose access, but then you gotta make sure you don't also lose access to your email domain.
Handing over control of your online identity like that to a centralized third party when you could be cut off at any point [insert here any recent news about people wrongfully losing access to their Gmail account and not getting it reinstated] seems like the wrong solution to be allowed the privilege of sending email.
I guess the very least we could do to keep some control is to own (read: rent) your email domain you could move elsewhere in case you lose access, but then you gotta make sure you don't also lose access to your email domain.
Is there an actual solution to all of this?