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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 130 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

And I'd never trust Zuckerberg with my email

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I wouldn't even trust them with my public keys

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Are you going to give it back?

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 7 points 6 days ago

Maybe one day, when you least expect it!

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 82 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I can’t wait for twitter’s youtube competitor Xvideos!

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I just tried that and now Human Resources wants me to come down to meet with them.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 points 6 days ago

Maybe you're winning an award!

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

As an early adopter, I approve

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

cant wait to automatically send any xmail.com emails to junk

edit oooh haha that domain already exists so basically elon is sol

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 27 points 6 days 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

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 days ago

he could just use x.com for that too

It would probably be mail.x[.]com

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The DOGE police is on their way to your location.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 55 points 6 days ago

It's like Gmail but with racism!

[–] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 56 points 6 days ago (3 children)

This remembers me of the possibility of him buying TikTok and renaming it to "X Vídeos". What are the odds of such a tragicomedy to happen?

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

That would be hilarious

I live in some hope that he renames his holding company "XCOM" so that it can join the likes of Skynet in making our childhoods real..

[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

But xcom were supposed to be the good ones. Have we been lied all this time?

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

I think it could happen. As soon as he's in the government, they will decide that TikTok is illegal, and he'll either launch the clone or buy the US version from them.

I actually believe it's more likely than not.

Then the propaganda machine will include both Twitter and TikTok. You'll probably never see a fair election again in the US.

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[–] Nyxicas@kbin.melroy.org 29 points 6 days ago

ProtonMail is enough for me.

Shove that stupid 'X' up your ass, Musk.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 24 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 days ago

X-Mailer is a thing already tho.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

I will be sure to auto filter any emails from that shit.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] maxenmajs@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days 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.

[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days 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.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 days ago

So white-power mail?

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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).

[–] Nyxicas@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It'll be the mail service for the alt-right, I'd imagine.

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[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago

Get fucked Elon.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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.

MuskMail?

smells like desperation and divorce

[–] r_deckard@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Sure musk, get my private stuff. No, F off you nazi as*hole.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

And just like that, I'm suddenly way more comfortable google....

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 12 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I'll be sticking with Protonmail, personally

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[–] maxenmajs@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I wonder when he'll create an online Fax service and call it FaXimile or something.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Gonna make a porn site to compete with PornHub called s3X.com

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days 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.

[–] PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

finally we get to answer the question: can emails set on fire?

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 12 points 6 days ago

I've never been more satisfied hosting my own email than after reading this.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Wonder what “free speech absolutist” freedoms he’s going to apply to that service.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days 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.

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days 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.

[–] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Oh awesome, can't wait to explain how I got a porn site email.

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