• Square Singer@feddit.de
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    If you subscribe to the old Unix mantra of “one tool, one purpouse”, then yes.

    If you prefer convenience and the ability to accomplish things, then no.

    Using eMail for video chat isn’t really an option.

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        How many people do you know who still run actual Unix? (Unix, not Unixoids, which, for the most part, don’t follow that old Unix mantra)

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      Using eMail for video chat isn’t really an option.

      Lol. That’s not how anything works. You also cannot use a hammer to replace the SSD in your computer. Sometimes you need to pick up a screwdriver instead.

      What you want is the ‘everything app’. Go ahead and talk to Elon Musk. See how that is progressing 🙃

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        You can’t use You can’t use Slack for Video Calls? Or Teams? Or Signal? Or Threema? Or WhatsApp? Or Facebook Messenger? Or almost any other 1:1 chat app/protocol that survived long enough?

        All of my examples were originally text-only messengers meant for sending text messages, pretty similar to email.

        And even email didn’t stay completely “pure”, as, over time, it evolved file attachments.