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

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

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.

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

And I'd never trust Zuckerberg with my email

X-Mailer is a thing already tho.

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

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

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

ProtonMail is enough for me.

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

So white-power mail?

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

It's like Gmail but with racism!

lol ew

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?

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.

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).

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.

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.

Get fucked Elon.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

... it seems Musk has confirmed that he at least plans to create a very simple email service that uses text-only emails that arrive in the style of direct messages.

This sounds like a good idea, but unfortunately Musk is involved. He's obviously going to use it to feed to his AI (as the article points out).