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Elon Musk hints at 'X Mail,' a potential Gmail competitor

www.pcworld.com Elon Musk hints at 'X Mail,' a potential Gmail competitor

Elon Musk has apparently confirmed plans for X Mail, a simple and straightforward email service.

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

And I'd never trust Zuckerberg with my email

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- I wouldn't even trust them with my public keys
  
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  I'm borrowing that.
  
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I can’t wait for twitter’s youtube competitor Xvideos!

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- I just tried that and now Human Resources wants me to come down to meet with them.
  
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  Maybe you're winning an award!
  
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- As an early adopter, I approve
  
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- That’s already on Twitter.
  
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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

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- Wouldn't surprise me that instead of offering the current owner something nice and real that he'll just spend 10 times the amount on lawyers to just sue the guy into oblivion to get it.
  
  Fuck Musk
  
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- he could just use x.com for that too
  
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- It would probably be mail.x[.]com
  
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"I'm sorry, you cannot send this email because it contains the words "cisgender", please edit this and try again."

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- The DOGE police is on their way to your location.
  
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  we just call that the police in the USA
  
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It's like Gmail but with racism!

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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?

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- That would be hilarious
  
  I live in some hope that he renames his holding company "XCOM" so that it can join the likes of Skynet in making our childhoods real..
  
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  But xcom were supposed to be the good ones. Have we been lied all this time?
  
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- I think it could happen. As soon as he's in the government, they will decide that TikTok is illegal, and he'll either launch the clone or buy the US version from them.
  
  I actually believe it's more likely than not.
  
  Then the propaganda machine will include both Twitter and TikTok. You'll probably never see a fair election again in the US.
  
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  Wait didn't they already decide TikTok was illegal? I thought that ban was taking effect soon
  
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  I've seen popular social media get banned. Again and again. It doesn't really lead to local alternatives gaining traction, it just leads to even a gramma knowing what a VPN is.
  
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- And also profess his love of hamsters.
  
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ProtonMail is enough for me.

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

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

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- You can use bullshit X email for bullshit social media accounts like Reddit. Sweet.
  
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  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.
  
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X-Mailer is a thing already tho.

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

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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.

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lol ew

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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.

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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.

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So white-power mail?

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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).

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- It'll be the mail service for the alt-right, I'd imagine.
  
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  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.
  
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Get fucked Elon.

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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.

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- MuskMail?
  
  smells like desperation and divorce
  
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- 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.
  
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  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.
  
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- Dang that's a bit harsh to the poor 12 year olds, being compared to someone like that!
  
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Sure musk, get my private stuff. No, F off you nazi as*hole.

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- You're allowed to swear on the Internet.
  
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  Fuck yeah
  
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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.

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

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- I'll be sticking with Protonmail, personally
  
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  I tried switching to Proton. They took my money somehow (I think I was looking over the paid options and then got distracted and auto filled. Basically I wasn't paying attention) and then when I noticed on my cc bill I contacted them to say 'hey, I didn't mean to pay for all these features I don't need and am not using. Can I please have a refund?" They were like "lol it's been a month and 2 days so no, enjoy your 17 email addresses and some other crap you aren't using and don't need.".
  
  Still looking for an alternative to Google but it isn't going to be Proton.
  
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- The bar is pretty low, but yeah. At least Google provides a pretty good email service. I can't have the same confidence in a Musk product.
  
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I wonder when he'll create an online Fax service and call it FaXimile or something.

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- Gonna make a porn site to compete with PornHub called s3X.com
  
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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.

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

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- It's self-destruct and it's a feature!
  
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I've never been more satisfied hosting my own email than after reading this.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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... 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).

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If so, Google oa going to be a safe choice.

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Jeez another X something baby of Musk 🤮

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"Competetor"

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He probably started to become active in politics so he can create the UXA at some point.

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Don't go there guys

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I think I trust this less than if facebook had decided to become a free email provider

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