Elon Musk hints at 'X Mail,' a potential Gmail competitor | PCWorld
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  • Bruncvik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 天前

    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
    401·
    3 天前

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

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    124·
    3 天前

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

    And I’d never trust Zuckerberg with my email

  • kevincox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    24·
    3 天前

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

      • ChogChog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 天前

        You mean giving him an easily scrape-able database of my social media interactions and interests/internet footprint via junk mail lists/marketing ads from sites I visit and sign up for?

        Thank you but I’m personally going to pass.

  • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    55·
    3 天前

    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?

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    3 天前

    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·
      3 天前

      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·
        3 天前

        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.

  • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
    21·
    3 天前

    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·
        2 天前

        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.