• @marius@feddit.org
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    Gmail rival

    It’s called an email provider and there are already a million of those. Don’t act like it’s some fancy high tech stuff

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        Damn. Imagine an email service that makes actual emails impossible to find, but constantly bombards your inbox with the most hellish cringest spam imaginable.

        He’s reinventing Yahoo Mail. Real “Return To Tradition” hours. It’ll be like the 90s all over again.

  • @bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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    Ah good, a mail service that scans your mailbox, determines if you’re left leaning, and then doxes you to the Proud Boys/3 Percenters/Oath Keepers/etc. Fantastic idea.

  • @HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    132 days ago

    Melon musk, the Stevia Jobs of Tesla. Owner of X, X, X and another thing called X

    I don’t think I wanna be provided a service that I know edgelord in chief will fuck with when he’s salty.

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)
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    Is it just me or is Elmo now just announcing random shit and hoping that by magic it just instantly exists?

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      In 2013 he said that his cars would be self-driving by 2016 and has been promising that it would finally happen “by the end of this year” or “next year” ever since.

      • Jesus
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        Offering email isn’t exactly like offering self-driving. Any moron can standup an email host in hours / days.

          • Laurel Raven
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            Well, let’s be honest, it’s not exactly hard to make email suck. I’m sure he’ll find some interesting and creative ways to make it suck worse somehow, though…

          • Jesus
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            I’m sure this is all just a fast and easy way to get more data for his LLM.

      • @Taalnazi@lemmy.world
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        Elon is good at promising.
        What he’s terrible with is:

        • being a family man
        • being not an asshole
        • how he evades taxes, leeching off others

    • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Other than paying much smarter, more skilled, and generally better people to do stuff and take credit for their work, throwing out random shit and demanding that others make it happen is literally ALL he’s done professionally since he made a Space Invaders clone as a kid. That and self-promoting.

      He’s the richest man in the world and also the perfect example of the fact that the ultra-rich don’t become ultra-rich because they’re smarter or more talented or because they just work really hard.

      Being rich already; ruthless opportunism at the cost of the health, happiness, and often lives of others; and shamelessly relentless propaganda is how billionaires are made.

      • Onno (VK6FLAB)
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        That’s hilarious and depressing.

        The author of that page gave up in May 2021. I’m guessing that they sold their Tesla shares in utter disgust at that point.

        Pretty sure that it still hasn’t happened today in Jan 2025, despite people making adult movies in the front of a “self-driving” Tesla. Something that seems like a life limiting choice if ever I saw one.

    • Jesus
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      Email would be monumentally easy to offer. Setting up an email servers is easy AF, and if he wanted to, he could chuck any number of free web clients on it.

      My guess is that this is a fast and easy way to feed his LLMs with more content.

  • Diplomjodler
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    I’d rather keep my food in Jeffrey Dahmer’s fridge than my mail on Elon Musk’s server.

  • Jesus
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    Rephrased: Elon Musk would like to scan the emails of gullible conservative’s to feed his LLMs.

  • magnetosphere
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    There is zero chance that people will create filters that automatically delete anything with an xmail domain. Nope. No chance whatsoever. Anything coming from someone who uses xmail has to be worth reading, right?

    • @Suburbanl3g3nd
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      Having to use Gmail for work, I heartily disagree lol. What a piss-poor email system

    • tb_
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      Though still active, my Gmail now forwards everything to Proton Mail. It’s not as nice, though very serviceable for the not-particularly-high volume of e-mail I receive.

  • @LifeLemons@lemmy.ml
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    Fuck big email providers. All my homies use proton mail 😎

    We always have to remember that e-mail is a decentralized protocol. If so many people use one e-mail provider then e-mail will be less of a decentralized protocol and can be monopolised. I will hate it.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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      Already is. I’ve even met a couple sites that only accepted GMail and Outlook addresses for sign-ups. And good luck making sure you don’t end up in spam with something else.

      • @LifeLemons@lemmy.ml
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        Even proton has that feature for custom domain if paid for premium

        First time heard of tutanota though

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    I appreciate that that wording must have been annoying (if not painful) to write for a trans person but she still did it because it was too good an opportunity to pass.