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.
Or Tuta (formerly Tutanota) with my own domain. It’s neither that hard to set up nor expensive.
Even proton has that feature for custom domain if paid for premium
First time heard of tutanota though
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.
Out of interest, how does the spam find a self hosted email? If i, for example, only submitted it one two sites where it was never leaked, and i never publicly posted it?
I mean that YOUR emails would possibly end up in spam of say GMail users.
Oh yeah. https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/10/dead-letters/
Especially funny considering little spam comes from self hosted email.
Rephrased: Elon Musk would like to scan the emails of gullible conservative’s to feed his LLMs.
“They trust me. Dumb fucks.”
First thought is how bizarre.
Second thought is he’s desperate for payments and/or data mining.
Stop giving this fuckhead attention for vapor ware.
I liked it for the transfem joke but everyone here is just making fun of elon :(
The joke is good, don’t worry. Elon on the other hand…
If it does not ask for a phone number, it could be a good alternative for temp email.
Doesnt protonmail offer this?
There are a lot of existing alternatives to temp mail, you shouldn’t need to resort to anything he has to offer…
There are but most of them are blocked anyways
You can create Google accounts without phone number using any Android device. Perhaps even emulator would do.
Right, but then the account is inextricably tied to your Android device, no? Which is just as bad, if not worse imo.
But you can just use some old phone. Or perhaps emulator or something like Bliss OS installed on USB stick or in a VM.
But Google can and will probably link it with any device you log in on anyway. And after all, Android devices don’t have to be used just by one person either. So perhaps removing the account from the device is good enough.
I think it starts to ask you for a phone number if you log in on a desktop?
Is it just me or is Elmo now just announcing random shit and hoping that by magic it just instantly exists?
Always has been.
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.
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 of 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.
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.
He has been announcing that full autonomy for Teslas will come “next year” every year since 2018.
Elon is good at promising.
What he’s terrible with is:• being a family man
• being not an asshole
• being a tax evader and leeching off othersI think he’s doing pretty great job at the last one.
True, but I said “terrible with”, not “terrible at”.
yeah elon time is well known lmao
same with humans on mars, the hyperloop, the tesla bot, the [whatever else he promised/will promise]
Offering email isn’t exactly like offering self-driving. Any moron can standup an email host in hours / days.
But have you considered that he’s not just any moron? He’s a special type that will somehow make it suck.
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…
I’m sure this is all just a fast and easy way to get more data for his LLM.
Let’s hope Xmail users use AI to compose their emails with AI then 😁
Obviously. Because buying twitter was a great idea.
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?
Hell, I just proactively blocked it from my company’s tenancy…
More email providers is generally good, as long as you always have forwarding and import export options. It makes no sense for X to spend money on this, but hey, go for it.
Good luck handling the spam, lol.
As musky is a free speech absolute, all spam is welcome and spammers can pay with dogecoin to feature their spam in your Inbox. It’ll be great!
Makes it trivial to spam filter it.
I swear to fucking God, I will auto report every fucking email from their email server I get.
Is this satire? I genuinely cannot tell anymore
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.
Gmail is arguably the last good thing Google still has going for it.
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.
I just wish proton mail supported clients.
It does have a bridge for Windows to use with other clients, not so much for phones though
Yeah, but its still paid. don’t see why they cant do that instead of some other useless product that no one will use.
The bridge isn’t paid?
You can also use Proton Mail for free, much like Gmail is free up to a certain storage point.I’m pretty sure you have to pay to use the bridge, thats what i was referring to. I use proton main on the free plan.
says there that its only available for paid subscribers.
Oh, my bad.
Having to use Gmail for work, I heartily disagree lol. What a piss-poor email system
I would argue that Google drive is also the last good thing Google still has going for it
Yes, but this meme (somehow) needs an edit featuring Willam Defoe’s character from Boondock Saints:
