Elon Musk hints at 'X Mail,' a potential Gmail competitor | PCWorld
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  • Bruncvik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 day 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.

  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    371·
    2 days ago

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

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    120·
    2 days ago

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

    And I’d never trust Zuckerberg with my email

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 days 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.

    • Not a replicant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • MaxTheMummer@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        I like the idea of finding alternative and clever ways of saying things, but I wouldn’t like having to do it out of fear of offending our billionaire overlords.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 day 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.

  • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
    21·
    2 days 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).

      • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        I guess, but even there… I fail to see the target there. IE truth social and xitter at least have a reason alt right extremists need them… IE facebook and old twitter would occasionally ban people or put fact checks on some nazi rhetoric and blatent false stories. To my knowledge no e-mail provider is going to ban you for sending that FW:FW:FW:FW: My dog was infected by my son’s friends covid vaccine, and my hatian neighbor became trans after eating it.

  • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    53·
    2 days ago

    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?

  • Maxnmy's@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 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.