Australia’s internet providers are ditching email, to the disgust of older customers (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by ono@lemmy.ca to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[-] JCPhoenix@beehaw.org 25 points 10 months ago

I can understand the pain, though. Moving accounts to a new email is not a fun process. Especially if someone has an email for years, decades even, that's a lot of stuff that could be registered with that email. And trying to save emails isn't necessarily straightforward. Migration, if it's even available, isn't foolproof or easy, either.

While I've grown up with the Internet, I think I've only changed my main email like 3 times over ~30yrs. The last time I did it was over a decade ago, to Gmail from my family's then ISP-based email. I think I'm way overdue to do it again, at least moving my important accounts like banking and government stuff to a new email address, but it's just so time consuming.

And I say all this as a tech person. I work in IT. For someone who's not particularly tech savvy, forget about it.

[-] Icarus@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm about the same. Last switch was yahoo to Gmail and now I'm in the process of switching from Gmail to Proton Mail. The most difficult part was the mental switch - which email you start giving out when you sign up. Second was migrating services. I made it a point for a while each time I logged into something knew I would switch the primary email. Its been a long process!