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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I actually love email. It's great that we have a standard and open protocol for sending and receving virtual mail. Without email we would be now probably using some closed-source proprierary and not interoperable solution witch locks you in. I'm glad it didn't happen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I will fight anyone who disagrees with the fact that email is the best protocol ever invented. It is perfect. Arbitrary text, file attachments, e2ee with gpg. It has zero downsides for most things. It's just been destroyed by corpos :/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What about ip over avian carriers? I think it's better 😅

But yes. Email is great. :3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Eh, it suffers from higher than useful packet loss and has absurdly high latency.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

BONTO! has had a security breach. Your data has been stolen. We're sorry.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago

In my experience, you find out BONTO! had a security breach via an Ars Technica article published around 4 months after the fact because the data was found on the dark web. Zero correspondence from the company itself except in rare circumstances

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Your privacy is very important to BONTO! Please give us permission to share your data with the following 465 companies

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Please give us permission to share your data with the following 465 companies

Those are amateur numbers. No wonder BONTO is getting aquired and restructured. They need to get those privacy invasion numbers up!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Have you ever gotten an email for a breach from the company that leaked your personal data? Haveibeenpwned.com is how I found out about my breaches.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What a coincidence! This is how I found out about your breaches, too

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[–] [email protected] 232 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Then 3 years later

Brooks, Herman and Anderson Law firm - Bonto data privacy class action lawsuit

[–] [email protected] 75 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Get your .0012¢ for a $7 processing fee!

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Click here to unsubscribe. Great; it will take 4-10 days. It never unsubscribes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If in EU: make a GDPR complaint. Unsubscribing should be instant and no more difficult than signing up

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can I use a VPN to permanently pretend I'm in the EU?

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (3 children)

BONTO! sucked anyhow. BONMO~ is the FOSS replacement that does everything better.

They're looking for devs btw, which is why it's been so long without an update or bug fixes.

Donate HERE.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

This repository was archived by the owner on Jun 5, 2025. It is now read-only.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

And if for some godforsaken reason you're looking for help:

JOIN OUR DISCORD™ (whaddya mean you don't wanna?)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

*joins discord*

You say "Hey guys, I'm new to bonmo and was wondering why it doesn't use traditional control-c and control-v for cut and paste? I think BRONTO! used the standard keys?"

*38 minutes later*

BONMASTER_420 says "first its called BONMO~ not bonmo and the answer is in the sauce we really dont have time to answer the questions of ever fukwit that joins the discord plus its not are job to explain why bronto did shit different tard fork it if you don't like it shitbeqd"

*1hr 12 minutes later*

BleachAnime2009 says "Again with the ctrl-c/ctrl-v thing? Jesus christ learn how to use the search function would you guys? This has been discussed to death."

You say "Sorry, I tried searching but don't see an answer. I'm not a programmer either so if you could just tell me I'd appreciate it."

*You have been kicked*

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You don' hate email; you hate capitalism.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

"BONTO is selling your personal info to Google! Click this non-working link to opt out!"

[–] [email protected] 102 points 4 days ago (2 children)

BONTO! will be deleting your data soon

Log into BONTO! to save your data

BONTO! will be deleting your data soon

BONTO! will be deleting your data soon

BONTO! has archived your data

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago

Deleting your data for you. Their copy is theirs.

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 4 days ago (16 children)

BONTO! was sooo good. Like it really improved the Slorpiness.

[–] radiohead37 50 points 4 days ago

No way! BONTO! was just the enshitfication of Slorp by a private equity firm.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Actually no, I don't remember when email was ever useful and I do remember dial-up internet 😂

It used to be chain emails "Send this to 10 other people or YOU'LL DIE" and people forwarding other people's bad picture slideshows and even worse uplifting inspiring cards without looking at them, and now it's automated slop.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Those meme email chains were annoying at the time, but kinda endearing to look back on in retrospect.

I kept getting added onto ones my mum and dad were getting from a bunch of their friends that had people's random corporate/work email addresses included and stuff.....

It was a simpler time, when boomers hadn't discovered social media yet, and were making their own fun without Facebook and without the algorithm.

If someone offered me a chance to magic social media away like it never happened, and the price I had to pay was unfunny memes spamming my inbox, it's a price I'd pay gladly.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

"Send this to 10 other people or YOU'LL DIE"

And a lot of "I'm not superstitious BUT..." LOL

I almost miss how stupidly innocent the internet felt with that nutty stuff back then. Most chain letters were merely annoying social experiments rather than ultra nefarious like social media has become.

(Edit: lol just noticed a very similar take a few posts above me.)

"Flashing headlights at cars is a gang initiation to help them pick who to murder! Pass this along because it's better safe than sorry!"

"Opening the wrong email might give you the Life is Beautiful virus that says 'your life is no longer beautiful' and wipes your hard drive! Tell everyone you know!"

(Ah, when an erased hard drive was the scariest malware one could think of...)

"Snd ths 2 15 ppl and push Alt+F4 and teh naem of ur crush will appear. (Zomgwtfbbq it rly works!!)"

"I'm a missionary in South Afrimericasia and I wanted to send this prayer chain around the entire world to prove something wholesome and also send money plz lol. Look, Sarah passed it on and her life turned around! The divine holy power of email!"

I had to spend a lot of time directing people I knew to a now-defunct site called "BreakTheChain" , and also Snopes. Usually the same people. Every time.

And sometimes they'd tell me "Well I forward it to you because you can tell me if it's true or not." I don't miss that. Lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

OMG I had forgotten the prayer chains from southwhatever missionaries 🤣 🤣 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

In the late 90s there was a women's magazine called Bust, and for some reason they'd also let you have a bust dot com email account if you wanted. You could email me at [email protected], and those were creative fun days of the Internet.

ETA: it still exists as a quarterly internet magazine but it is NOTHING like it was, it was a great magazine.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

Subject: your billing statement is now available

Body: Log on to our website because we couldn't possibly JUST FUCKING TELL YOU HOW MUCH ELECTRICITY OR WHATEVER YOU USED THIS MONTH DIRECTLY IN THE E-MAIL; no, we've got to play fucking games and make you do extra work and stop you from automatically having a record of your shit without having to deliberately log on to the platform we control and download them individually with 30 seconds worth of clicking between each one.

WTF is even the point of the email if there's NO USEFUL INFORMATION IN IT?!

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago (4 children)

It's annoying, but from a data security point of view it makes sense, personal information like that is more secure behind the login on their website than in an e-mail in plain text.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wait what? BONTO is shutting down??? Aww man...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I only really liked it when it was Slorp. When they changed over to BONTO that's when the enshitification started. Where my Slorp homies at?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I actually love email. While yes, this post is accurate, email is the most filterable communication system that I have. Since I have my own email-server, and I know how procmail rules work, I can tightly control who is allowed to contact me, and what folders their messages go into. It also has great crowd-sourcing of known spammers, that I can pull from to help me filter out spammy IP addresses.

Every other message system only has a "report spam" button, that is dependent on the service admins, and doesn't actually stop people from sending me annoying junk-mail.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (3 children)
  • Someone has sent you a private messages on BONTO! But we won't tell you what it says or you won't go to the website.
[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Hint: it's a private message from BONTO!-Bot offering you BONTO+! Premium Supreme! (It's BONTO! with less ads)

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I legit got an e-mail from Facebook telling me that I should join Facebook because “no one uses e-mail anymore”. Ummmm…..well someone must be still using e-mail and No.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

The same could be said for any form of communication, really.

I remember when phones used to be good. Now it's all

  • We have important information about your car's warranty.
  • Here's information on new solar panel installation that doesn't work with your home / location.
  • You've been selected to answer a quick 15 question survey.

I remember when mail used to be good. Now it's all

  • I'm a disgraced Nigerian prince and I need your help to protect my multi-million dollar fortune.
  • Here's all the important sales WalMart is having this week! Don't miss out!
  • Here's your electricity bill that you're enrolled in auto-pay for. No action is needed on your part, but we're sending you this 12-page summary anyway.
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago (2 children)

My current personal hell is

Log in to use Splurp™️!

USERNAME: Bongo Password: Schleeb209-!AA12

An E-Mail has been sent to [email protected] with a link to sign in [click link] Please confirm with 2FA!

Now do this again every fucking hour on this service you use all day you fucking cow.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

What the hell is BONTO! I don't remember making an account on BONTO! Why do I have a BONTO! account is someone impersonating me WAS MY EMAIL HACKED??? Oh wait it's just a rebrand of that one website that forced me to create an account 10 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Remember when mail was useful? When you opened the letter box hoping to see a letter from a friend who moved to a different city?

Now mail is just like email. Or to put it differently, email became like it's physical predecessor.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Don't forget

  • "BONTO! is sneakily roping you into a binding private arbitration clause because they're planning to do some real shady shit that'll affect a critical mass of users!

(At the bottom of the email)

...You can still opt to use the public justice system that already exists if you disagree with this. You simply must send your disagreement in writing upon a clay tablet delivered by a specific courier to a remote P.O Box in Illinois within the next 32 business hours.

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