I have completely stopped using google services and software on my personal devices (even have lineageos + microg on my phone. The problem is that I can’t just explain to the technically uneducated people that I changed mail providers. How should I go about doing this?
Set up auto forwarder from gmail to your new account
Tell people you changed email address
Ez
It’s like when you move IRL. Just give them your new address. Done.
While you’re at this, get yourself your own domain so should you ever want to move provider again you don’t have to change your mail address again and can just point the new provider to the same domain
I hate it too, I need it and hate it. But it is the standard and honestly if we all switched to whatever else, we would hate that too. The mechanism isn’t the problem, imo, it’s the requirement of maintenance and monitoring.
None of those are problems for me.
What is it that you hate about email, then? You’ve piqued my curiosity.
The problem is that I can’t just explain to the technically uneducated people that I changed mail providers. How should I go about doing this?
Speaking as a nontech person, I can assure you that none of us care in the slightest.
Just give us the new address and we’ll change it. We might curse you for making us do the work, but probably we’ll feel like badasses when we do it in only three hours.