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[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think you forgot who the target market is...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Is this satire? I genuinely cannot tell anymore

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Stevia Jobs is the harshest thing I've ever seen ol' musky be called

[–] [email protected] 146 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Strange, according to our Xmail analytics 90% of people are right wing fascist supporters.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

Oh good, they'll love it then because they won't have a choice.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Is it just me or is Elmo now just announcing random shit and hoping that by magic it just instantly exists?

[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

same with humans on mars, the hyperloop, the tesla bot, the [whatever else he promised/will promise]

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

yeah elon time is well known lmao

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

But have you considered that he's not just any moron? He's a special type that will somehow make it suck.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

"They trust me. Dumb fucks."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Gmail is arguably the last good thing Google still has going for it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I would argue that Google drive is also the last good thing Google still has going for it

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Hell, I just proactively blocked it from my company's tenancy...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Yes, but this meme (somehow) needs an edit featuring Willam Defoe's character from Boondock Saints:

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Stop giving this fuckhead attention for vapor ware.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I liked it for the transfem joke but everyone here is just making fun of elon :(

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

The joke is good, don't worry. Elon on the other hand..

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or Tuta (formerly Tutanota) with my own domain. It's neither that hard to set up nor expensive.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago

Makes it trivial to spam filter it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This dude is fully losing it. I’m predicting some kind of massive meltdown very soon.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago (6 children)

What do you mean... "very soon"?

Isn't he actively in it? Dude is publicly calling King Charles to make the UK an autocracy lol,supporting German far-right groups, etc etc

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I'm not so sure. I reckon he's using a Trump-style strategy of just constantly doing and saying outrageous rubbish in order to dominate people's attention. i.e. He just wants people to be paying attention to him, and thinking about him, and writing about him, regardless of whether it is positive or negative.

I believe he is doing this as a deliberate strategy, knowing that even if a lot of the reaction is negative, it still means that he has the attention of the world - and that people will listen to what he is saying.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Also his ultimate goal is to become a trillionaire. Because he thinks we live in a simulation and that he is the main player and he wants to beat the high score. And he found out the best way to achieve that is to create a cult around him. Tesla stock only soared to those heights because of him as a person not because the company’s performance. People are buying Tesla stock like it’s a tithe to the Elon church. And to keep people in the cult of Elon he sows division. The more negativity surrounding him from outsiders the more his cult followers will dig their heels into the ground and buy more of his stocks and products.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is this the greek X? Because then it would be Chi-Mail (aka Shemale)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

The X is pronounced "twitter."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (6 children)

That's not how that's pronounced in Greek. It's just like Kai in Cobra Kai. Or the first syllable of the name Kyle.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (7 children)

If it does not ask for a phone number, it could be a good alternative for temp email.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are a lot of existing alternatives to temp mail, you shouldn't need to resort to anything he has to offer..

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

I swear to fucking God, I will auto report every fucking email from their email server I get.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

nice litmus paper for forever ignoring people

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