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- No* chance the platform will suddenly decide you should not see half of your messages
- Nowhere near as easy to have your account hacked and all messages deleted (Discord)
- Very likely to have a better search built into your client than any other messaging platform
- Everyone already has it (and it's trivial to make a furry/art specific one if needed)
- Allows direct attachment of files that should be large enough for MOST finished works, excluding most video
- At this point, not any less private than any other common messaging platform
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- Still reeling at how "Private Messages" got turned into "Direct Messages" and no one batted an eye
sigh yes very much agreed. it's the practical choice for this sort of thing and we do recommend it.
(we're an information privacy expert, so we shouldn't just reshare this without noting that in fact, there is a sense in which email is less private - it potentially transits through many separate companies any of which could choose to snoop or could be subpoeaned, whereas if you're using a centralized chat service there's only one company to be concerned about. in practice this is hardly ever going to matter because, for most threat models, one is plenty. we sympathize with people's desire to not worry about those details, heh.)
Unlike most systems, email can even have encryption nicely retrofitted with PGP or S/MIME and a decent email client like Thunderbird will support encrypted email using one or more of these methods easily.
It is a bit of a pain to make e2e email encryption work but it's possible, as opposed to, say, Slack or Twitter DMs.
