silent link is a good way to start

I feel this note

i think I abandoned email years ago, just hacent admitted it to myself yet

Take us back to CB Radio and Fax

I still have a cb. It's in the attic. Still works too.

Same here. I recommend ordering a bunch of walkie talkies and giving them out to homeless people in your city to help kick start the revolution

Do you talk to ghosts in the attic with that?

Hell nah, I talk to the memes.

And Burt Reynolds.

Delta Chat is a good off-ramp for email... Can't send anything out unless the other side is encrypted... Can still receive incoming emails to randgen address... Still trying to find a phone number off-ramp...

That's interesting. I didn't know that!

A lot of the problem with electronic forms of communication is the immediacy that it conjures in the callor... You can hear/read it in their tone. No friendly greeting, no personal introduction, no basic courtesy. It's just, I'm calling to extract something out of you, and don't you dare hang up on me! LOL... I had some re-subscribe call center agent call me months later about an online magazine subscription that failed 2 attempts to authorize my card. He assumed that it was a valid, ongoing sale (months later) and that I was still interested in their magazine after spending half an hour on their crappy checkout page months ago... He tried to goad me into paying, saying it was a contract, etc, yada yada... I hung up on him after he refused to take no for an answer... He then proceeded to rapidly autodial multiple callbacks until I remembered where the power button was. 😁 Thumb power! If you can find a way to slow the raging river of calls and emails, it's a lot more palletable way to use electronic communication methods... I'm thinking of a phone number that only plays a voicemail telling the callor how to reach me through decentralized methods of communication like Nostr, SimpleX, DeltaChat, etc, etc... Onboarding as obfuscation... If they really want to communicate, they will, but most likely they'll just move on to their next victim... It's the politest yet productive "no" that I can think of.

I agree so much. And calls can feel so invasive. People get angry if you don't answer lol. I think I need to use your voicemail idea. But I'll just say a PO box you can mail me at. 😂

Even better! Great idea on po box! NumberBarn and CallCentric are both on my shortlist...

I feel you 💯 I nuked WhatsApp and man it feels so liberating

Congrats bro. That's a hard one to get rid of for sure. People pressure you into in like mad. 🙏

At this point if I create an account and it asks me for an email or phone number instead of providing me with a 24-word seed, I'm out.

Plus you get the federal prosecutorial protections of using the mails... Not a bad idea.

This is the way!