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[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 151 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 69 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

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

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 121 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 82 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 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.

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago

yeah elon time is well known lmao

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 months 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.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

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...

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[–] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Elon is good at promising.
What he's terrible with is:

• being a family man
• being not an asshole
• how he evades taxes, leeching off others

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 8 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] marius@feddit.org 103 points 2 months 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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 70 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 21 points 2 months ago

"They trust me. Dumb fucks."

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 69 points 2 months 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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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 65 points 2 months 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?

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

Makes it trivial to spam filter it.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Stop giving this fuckhead attention for vapor ware.

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Senseless@feddit.org 16 points 2 months ago

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

[–] LifeLemons@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 months 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.

[–] Senseless@feddit.org 10 points 2 months 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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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Spezi@feddit.org 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Zess@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

The X is pronounced "twitter."

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months 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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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 56 points 2 months 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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[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months 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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[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] Suburbanl3g3nd 8 points 2 months ago

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

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

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

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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!

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[–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months 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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[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months 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.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

First thought is how bizarre.

Second thought is he's desperate for payments and/or data mining.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Obviously. Because buying twitter was a great idea.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

nice litmus paper for forever ignoring people

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