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this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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To shreds you say?
The “research” is a thinly veiled sale product by Thales. Fucking lol
I’m not! I think at least …
Pretty fucking well seems like it.
What does traffic mean in this context, is it the total amount of bytes transferred or the total amount of requests made?
Right? Are you really telling me bots outnumber streaming music, movies, and TV???
Do "bots" include telemetry and all the data your OS is constantly sending back to the mothership?
I mean, 96.5% of email was spam a decade or two ago, so this is nothing new, AI or not. Hackers and other blackhats are just shifting targets.
The problem is that nobody really uses email anymore. So you might be right, but it should show people why 95% of all the Internet traffic being garbage is pretty damning for businesses or communities that have been built upon it.
“Nobody uses email anymore”
😆 That’s funny.
You're telling me you use email for anything other than spam? By all means, give an example. Personally, when I talk to friends or family, I never use their email address, I just add them to signal or get their phone number...
Work, school, 2FA, easy form of communication with small orgs and just general other stuff. Email is not useless but I do not have normal conversations with it if that's what you mean.
Even 2FA, I mostly don't use email anymore in favor of other more secure 2FA methods.
School, beats me, bit work is mostly chat based these days imo with slack. Granted, I do have email for invoices, but I was mostly talking about email as a communication tool, not a document management system. I'd be perfectly fine with sending people cloud links to Google drive if they accepted it.
Do you not have a job where you use email? Do you not get bank statements via email? Receipts? Updates from your HOA? Etc etc etc.
Job uses slack, rocketchat or discord. I have a work email that is so separate from personal email that it basically doesn't count (because there's no spam there.) HOA and Bank sends old fashioned mail, and also isn't critical to me as I have websites for both. Receipts I wouldn't really consider communication, but even then most receipts I save personally.
Seriously, email is kind of old fashioned and isn't really used for communication between real people. You can see how most of what you're talking about is effectively "documents" and not real communication right?
Most I use email for discussion in 2025 is mailing lists but those are usually for old phogey FOSS projects.
Let me ask you this way, why use lemmy at all if email forums are perfectly legitimate ways of communication? You could be on a mailing list right now, so why is activitypub even important?
"You could be using Discord, so why use Lemmy?"
Different things, different use cases. More rapid communication is usually worse for archiving, can you conveniently find old discussions on Discord that weren't pinned? What about Lemmy posts a year back that you didn't save, but suddenly remembered?
Emails are on the extreme end of the spectrum where you don't expect a quick response, but there's less of them to manage and they can be used for contacting strangers. I used them for asking about doctor appointments when calling doesn't work.