I feel like I'd even trust Zuckerberg over Musk with my email
And I'd never trust Zuckerberg with my email
I wouldn't even trust them with my public keys
I'm borrowing that.
Are you going to give it back?
Maybe one day, when you least expect it!
It's like Gmail but with racism!
"I'm sorry, you cannot send this email because it contains the words "cisgender", please edit this and try again."
cant wait to automatically send any xmail.com emails to junk
edit oooh haha that domain already exists so basically elon is sol
he could just use x.com for that too
It would probably be mail.x[.]com
Let me remind you that this will be under the same guy who made his employees yank out server machines and transport them in an unprofessional and insecure manner. Your data would be unsafe with him in more than one way.
I can't wait for the first story about how someone's email account got deleted because they said something less than complimentary about man child Musk on Twatter.
Get fucked Elon.
Called this before the election. Musk is going to try and angle to get his shitty platforms to be used exclusively by government agencies. It's an out in the open plan to just steal and funnel taxpayer money for bullshit.
GMail could actually use more competitors. However I definitely won't be trusting Musk with my email.
And just like that, I'm suddenly way more comfortable google....
I'll be sticking with Protonmail, personally
I tried switching to Proton. They took my money somehow (I think I was looking over the paid options and then got distracted and auto filled. Basically I wasn't paying attention) and then when I noticed on my cc bill I contacted them to say 'hey, I didn't mean to pay for all these features I don't need and am not using. Can I please have a refund?" They were like "lol it's been a month and 2 days so no, enjoy your 17 email addresses and some other crap you aren't using and don't need.".
Still looking for an alternative to Google but it isn't going to be Proton.
That honestly seems like a reasonable response from Proton. You signed up for their paid service; you’re not entitled to a refund because you weren’t paying attention
You are correct, which is why I didn't pursue the matter. They can keep my money, they've lost a customer.
They are providing a SERVICE. I was not using the service, I didn't need it. The mistake might have been mine (assuming it wasn't a dark pattern or sketchy design) but they had a choice: keep my money and tell me to go fuck myself (which they did) or refund my money at no cost to them. This wasn't a box of goods that they would have to take back and reinventory.
I would have purchased the lower tier of service (which I explained to the rep) and continued to use their services, and I would have been telling you about how they were reasonable and I am a happy customer.
I had already invested significant effort in moving my email over, it was a pain to shift back, but if Proton's answer to a simple problem is "fuck you, we've got ours.", I'll pass. I spent a lot of time on their 'pick a paid service" page because I was going to pay for one of their lower tiers, I just hadn't decided which one.
The bar is pretty low, but yeah. At least Google provides a pretty good email service. I can't have the same confidence in a Musk product.
I think something he just plain doesn't get... who on earth is the target demographic. There's no shortage of e-mail services, outlook, yahoo, gmail, as public easy to use ones.
So what I gather, the closest to a major "feature", is to remove formatting and image ability from the e-mail. Which... most likely means existing e-mails formatted for other platforms, will error out or be unreadable unless individuals choose not to use their formatting ability from their mail clients?
Gmail rose to fame, because it actually solved a real problem. IE at the time gmail came out, hotmail was offering like 10 MB of storage. Google offered 1GB. A change so big people thought the anouncement was just an april fools joke (admitted, announcing it on april 1st was probably intentional for that as well).
lol ew
MuskMail?
Nah dawg. I'm good.
Probably end up getting banned from my own email when he gets triggered by whatever he happens to be triggered by that day. Don't really feel like trusting my data to an adult that acts like a 12 year old.
It would certainly accelerate the development of language. How many new words will be invented, or existing words subverted, to serve clandestine communications and slip past the filters? Steganography, anyone?
Can I See Great Etchings Near Dubai Ending Roughly? <- That's a bit weak, but you get the idea.
MuskMail?
smells like desperation and divorce
I will be sure to auto filter any emails from that shit.
I wonder when he'll create an online Fax service and call it FaXimile or something.
So white-power mail?
X-Mailer is a thing already tho.
finally we get to answer the question: can emails set on fire?
Free with the service: a thrice daily digest of edgy quotes from The Xavior, reasons why He is perfect and completely enlightened, and a plethora of ads for musk-related merchandise and products.
No unsubscription option from this will be available. But that's okay. The cult will gleefully lap all that shit up.
I've never been more satisfied hosting my own email than after reading this.
An e-mail platform doesn't enjoy the same kind of network effect as social media, so there won't be any social penalty for never joining or leaving it. Unless he comes with a compelling reason to keep an account there, I don't see it taking off.
Wonder what “free speech absolutist” freedoms he’s going to apply to that service.
Oh awesome, can't wait to explain how I got a porn site email.
He's seemingly trying to create a suite of social networking and other tools. Maybe to compete with Google and the likes. Ambitious for sure. I don't know if he'll have any success given how Twitter is going.
When you throw enough shit at the wall, something's bound to stick, I guess. Unless you're a giant turd who thinks you're a good entrepreneur.
If so, Google oa going to be a safe choice.
... it seems Musk has confirmed that he at least plans to create a very simple email service that uses text-only emails that arrive in the style of direct messages.
This sounds like a good idea, but unfortunately Musk is involved. He's obviously going to use it to feed to his AI (as the article points out).
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