Well to add to that then, Microsoft outlook also has a free alias service, which work as a redirect email that you can enable/disable at will. But I believe there's a limit to those, so I just use my Gmail address most times.
When registering for stuff I always pay very close attention to not check the "send me offers and promotions" checkbox, unless I am genuinely interested.
If any gets by, or if any by default signs you up, whenever I get an email from them I'll go to the bottom of the email and unsubscribe.
This means that all the marketing emails are from things that I genuinely have interest on.
Sometimes, even these things get too spammy and unsubscribe from those that kinda act abusive.
They aren't your "FREE LIMITED IPHONES! OPEN NOW!" kind of emails. Those I mark as spam, hoping to improve the detection system on whatever email client, and move on.
So, essentially, I have "free time" to read those as much as you and I have "free time" to come here on lemmy. It's something I am interested on.
Edit: just realised I didn't specifically answer your questions but it's basically:
Just a regular guy.
I am interested in the ones I do get.
Sometimes before sleep or when I go to the bathroom I look at emails/lemmy/others.
Edit2: I think there's a distinction to make here between SPAM emails and Newsletters.
SPAM emails are mostly sent based on leaked emails lists or something. Newsletters, you usually sign up for them (knowingly or not).
Edit3: Bonus ProTip - If you use Gmail you can get a + sign after your email and before the @ symbol and whatever your write on there is ignored.
So for instance myemail+otherwords@gmail.com will still forward to myemail@gmail.com .
This means you can kind of find out who leaked your email if you register as "email+websitename@gmail.com", however this tip is getting known a bit more so some websites now sanitize your email and it won't work as intended... :(
Also, if for some reason you'll be using the email as the login it can be kinda crap.
I'm from the EU and sadly this has become more and more the norm here.
I remember a time when we had very little SUVs here but now they seem to be everywhere. And it's a really busy capital city, so the streets are narrow. I can't understand why people would buy big cars here...
I think I overall prefer digital, but on e-ink devices mostly.
I like that they don't take up space, I can download them quickly and not have to go to the bookstore or order it online and wait for it to be delivered. Also I can sync it on multiple devices and read on my kindle when I really want to have a good reading experience but if I forget it or am waiting for the bus or something, just pull up the kindle app on my phone and everything is synced.
On the other hand, growing up with a lot of books I kinda miss the feel and smell of physical books. Also I feel like they are a bit more... "permanent".
These are a few of the classics. All of these are kinda short, ranging from a few seconds to a couple of minutes, I always watch them again when I feel like I need a laugh:
Yeah, I'm kinda mad at all the Spez/3rd party app stuff, but the constant hate has got me thinking about leaving lemmy.
It's sad because I like the idea behind lemmy but people have no respect.
I like hearing different sides of things but absolutely everything is political here and it's either black or white. Ffs
I see some Linux but I'm subscribed to a lot of techy communities. Self host, programming etc. So it's kinda normal.
Could be the default view on each instance...
On my first account I subbed to a lot of different communities on different instances so I saw all the crap.
Eventually due to all the politics bullshit I just migrated to my current instance which has hexbear and lemmygrad blocked so it's been a lot better.
But even so, I always see a bunch of politics crap on the memes community.
Was about to say BotW