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   aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 08:33:53 JST aeva

   • Erin 💽✨

   @ireneista @erincandescent I don't think I count as The Kids These Days anymore (I'm in my late 30s), but I can't say that email has been a place where cool things happen, just an endless deluge of spam and notifications that I can't keep under control. Between my work and personal email I have 8170 messages in my inboxes, most of which are unread. I've tried "inbox zero". I have tons of filters set up. I just can't keep up.

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     Erin 💽✨ (erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 08:33:51 JST Erin 💽✨

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     • Clifton Royston

     @CliftonR @aeva @ireneista I do not blame anyone for having a disaster inbox; keeping things under control is hard. I recently learned Fastmail lets me do address+folder.path@domain.com, which helps shovel the transactional e-mails off to the side pre-emptively (everything gets a unique e-mail address starting with +bulk. so that if there isn’t a dedicated folder for it, it gets shoved into the Bulk folder)

     But it really shouldn’t be like this. It shouldn’t be this hard to keep control of one of your primary communications channels.

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     Clifton Royston (cliftonr@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 08:33:52 JST Clifton Royston

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     • Erin 💽✨

     @aeva @ireneista @erincandescent

     It's honestly a relief to hear that from someone else.

     I have the same problem, and it's become a major stressor for me. It makes me feel bad that I'm not on top of it, but it just keeps on and keeps on pouring in.

     If I get any actual wanted personal email from someone, I'm very likely to miss it because it's a drop in an ocean.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 08:45:37 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Erin 💽✨
     • Clifton Royston
     @erincandescent @ireneista @aeva @CliftonR Yeah, same there, in fact I don't think I ever managed to do zero-inbox, only one that goes to zero is the Junk folder.
     
     My main folder just has years old emails in limbo, and for my mailing lists folders, specially the generic one based on presence of the "List-Unsubscribe" header, I think I read something like half.
     
     And I'm even worse when it comes to paper mail…
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     Erin 💽✨ (erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 08:49:25 JST Erin 💽✨

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     • Erin 💽✨
     • Clifton Royston

     @CliftonR @aeva @ireneista Sometimes it feels like I receive more marketing e-mails disguised as service-related transactional e-mails these days than I received actual spam 10 years ago.

     Sigh.

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