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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 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] 5 points 5 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] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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

But yes. Email is great. :3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 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 6 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!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Please log in to your account to opt out. Privacy settings in your account are unlocked between 1:00 and 1:30 GMT, and are accessed from a PS2 stored in the basement of the county office, behind the leopard.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 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] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 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 6 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

As far as most websites are concerned, yeah totally

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 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 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 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] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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] 32 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You don' hate email; you hate capitalism.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 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 6 days ago* (last edited 6 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 5 days ago* (last edited 5 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

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 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] 37 points 6 days ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, it's also one of the few remaining interoperable ways of communicating.

If your friend who used to use gmail is now using hotmail, you don't have to use a new app to communicate with that friend, you just update their email address and nothing else changes. If you used to be on gmail and you now want to run your own mail server you should check into a mental health clinic, but once you get out, you just tell your friends your new email address and for them nothing else changes. In fact, you can set gmail to forward emails, so any friends who forget will still communicate with you without difficulty.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 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 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

The local school does this where you need an app to view their daily posts. You also get an preview sent to your email with the first 100 words or so and an link to their app.

Does their system know how to email to hundreds of users? Yes.

Could their messages be transmitted via text? Yes.

Could their messages be posted on a simple WordPress blog? Also yes.

Can I view their full messages on any platform independent device or web browser? No.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 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 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

We have a law in German that you can opt out of advertisement on the mail by putting a sticker on to your mailbox that states "No Advertising". Companies have to respect it or will be fined.

I wish there was a "No advertisement please" sticker for my inbox too, but a junk filter will have to do.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

They forgot the newsletters you get twice a day* (*thrice if you opted out of newsletters) and the deluge of spam when everyone at Bonto sold your email address while they were going out of business.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

Mail is made so much better when using an alias system like SImpleLogin from Proton. Just create a new mail for everything (except Atlassian the idiots) and when they start doing bullshit you can terminate the email.

Enabling OTP code 2FA will also reduce the verification emails

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (4 children)

[quick look at my gmail]... I currently have 781 unread messages in my inbox.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Email is the original Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (10 children)

I believe emails should not be used. There are or should be better alternatives. Account creation should be handled by passkeys.

Email is legacy. Insecure and content is just a webpage...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I feel like seagulls are the perfect method for ad delivery

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