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.
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 :/
What about ip over avian carriers? I think it’s better 😅
But yes. Email is great. :3
Eh, it suffers from higher than useful packet loss and has absurdly high latency.
This memey post isn’t about Email as a concept, it’s about the state of commercial communication companies and the way we access having email.
Don’t worry. I get it. :3 I’m just adding another perspective to the discussion.
“BONTO is selling your personal info to Google! Click this non-working link to opt out!”
BONTO! Has been turned into a cube
Click here to unsubscribe to the cube
BONTO! has had a security breach. Your data has been stolen. We’re sorry.
Your privacy is very important to BONTO! Please give us permission to share your data with the following 465 companies
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.
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!
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.
Click here to unsubscribe. Great; it will take 4-10 days. It never unsubscribes.
If in EU: make a GDPR complaint. Unsubscribing should be instant and no more difficult than signing up
Can I use a VPN to permanently pretend I’m in the EU?
As far as most websites are concerned, yeah totally
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 is the original Fediverse.
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.
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.
“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
OMG I had forgotten the prayer chains from southwhatever missionaries 🤣 🤣 🤣
DO. NOT. SCROLL. A wiched curse has been placed upon you! You may only break this spell if you send it to 10 people immediately. NO SEND BACKS!
- 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.
Nextdoor. Freaking nextdoor is the absolute worst. I only have it because it’s a decent “local Intel” source because nobody talks to (or knows) each other in suburbia anymore.
But it shows you like the first 10 words of a post, and just opening the website on a phone practically locks the whole page with a “GeT tHe ApP!” Pop-up.
Know what? Yeah I should dump it. Save my mental health. Lol
Meanwhile:
No, I don’t like e-mails, they’re all spam, I only have an account to register other accounts. Why can’t we continue our chat here on Natziapp (formerly known as Chatter)? Yes, I know, it’s full of nazis, and stuff, but if we convince him hard enough, he could change for the better.
Then 3 years later
Brooks, Herman and Anderson Law firm - Bonto data privacy class action lawsuit
bonto has settled and agreed to provide one year of credit monitoring
Get your .0012¢ for a $7 processing fee!
Email has a place. I always let my teams know that text, phone call, or IM / DM aren’t professional ways to communicate.
The reason being is that it isn’t externally travelable - you can’t send it to the next recipient in a format that is accepted by most people.
Also I hate needing to check five or seven fucking messaging apps to get all of the info consolidated. Send a goddamned email with everything once the thought is finished.
Email is also fantastically based for “getting it in writing” when you’re getting abused / exploited at work.
Printing or downloading emails as evidence? Easy peasy.
Extracting message chains from some ridiculously long Slack/Discord/WhatsApp/whatever proprietary messenger app? Pulling teeth. Usually involves a ton of screenshotting.
When I worked at a public library I used to have people screenshotting ridiculously long Facebook messenger chains because their lawyer demanded it all be printed out…and sometimes they’d demand the printouts faxed.
(Usually divorce cases. Sad.)
Absolute insanity.
Wtf is this lol
Okay I reopened it with sound on lol makes more sense now
Oh, yeah, the voice is a big part of it. “Everything is possible with zombocom.”
"You can do anything you want at Zombocom…anything at all!
…the only limit…
…is yourself."
I felt that.
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.
And if for some godforsaken reason you’re looking for help:
JOIN OUR DISCORD™ (whaddya mean you don’t wanna?)
*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*
