News Elon Musk hints at building stripped-down Gmail alternative — billionaire first revealed Xmail intentions back in February

[Admin]

Elon Musk's digital ambitions are set to encompass one of the oldest most established forms of communication on the internet – Email.

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[giorgiog]

Or folks can just pay for FastMail and call it a day. Happy user, not affiliated in any way.

 

[why_wolf]

I think every e-mail program offers a mode that turns off "threads" which is that abomination that groups e-mail replies together. Keeps it in simple chronological order. Using folders of course takes this a step further.

Sounds like his real plan is to obfuscate that you are using e-mail at all, thus trapping users in an otherwise open system. IE he sees e-mail as a free open-source competitor and is looking to co-op it.

Very similar to how phones completely hide file structure to the point that kids today don't understand what file explorer is and are totally reliant on the search button.

 

[USAFRet]

Hard pass for 2 reasons.

1. Email works just fine (for me).

2. Elon.

 

[hotaru251]

1: who in right mind would trust musk with their private email?

2: poor musk is again late as someone already owns the xmail name & site https://xmail.com/

 

[P.Amini]

1: who in right mind would trust musk with their private email?

2: poor musk is again late as someone already owns the xmail name & site https://xmail.com/

How will they contact/reply me?

 

[USAFRet]

How will they contact/reply me?

This is not a thing yet. It is merely a half formed idea.