• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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    17 minutes 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).

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    42 minutes 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.

  • TheFogan@programming.dev
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    3 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).

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    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.

  • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    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.

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    9 hours ago

    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.

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    11 hours ago

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

    And I’d never trust Zuckerberg with my email