Elon Musk has apparently confirmed plans for X Mail, a simple and straightforward email service.
    • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      5 hours ago

      Wouldn’t surprise me that instead of offering the current owner something nice and real that he’ll just spend 10 times the amount on lawyers to just sue the guy into oblivion to get it.

      Fuck Musk

  • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    7 hours ago

    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.

  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    291·
    11 hours ago

    “I’m sorry, you cannot send this email because it contains the words “cisgender”, please edit this and try again.”

  • kevincox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    10 hours ago

    GMail could actually use more competitors. However I definitely won’t be trusting Musk with my email.

  • Abnorc@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    10 hours ago

    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.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    12 hours ago

    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.

    • Not a replicant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 hours ago

      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.

      • MaxTheMummer@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        8 hours ago

        I like the idea of finding alternative and clever ways of saying things, but I wouldn’t like having to do it out of fear of offending our billionaire overlords.

  • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
    18·
    15 hours ago

    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).

      • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        I guess, but even there… I fail to see the target there. IE truth social and xitter at least have a reason alt right extremists need them… IE facebook and old twitter would occasionally ban people or put fact checks on some nazi rhetoric and blatent false stories. To my knowledge no e-mail provider is going to ban you for sending that FW:FW:FW:FW: My dog was infected by my son’s friends covid vaccine, and my hatian neighbor became trans after eating it.

  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    12 hours ago

    … 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).

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    113·
    23 hours ago

    I feel like I’d even trust Zuckerberg over Musk with my email

    And I’d never trust Zuckerberg with my email