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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
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 :/
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.
I as well like email, it just has to be managed. Then you threw in the alternative involved a solution with a witch locking me in, and I'm intrigued to know more.
"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
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.
Click here to unsubscribe. Great; it will take 4-10 days. It never unsubscribes.
Whenever a company does that, I never shop there again
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! 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.
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JOIN OUR DISCORD™ (whaddya mean you don't wanna?)
BONMO~'s Kickstarter campaign turned out to be a scam, no refunds for existing investors, sowwy.
Anyway, now that the only alternative to BONTO! is dead, BONTO! merged with [weirdly popular social media company that you never paid attention to] and BONTO! is offering new subscription plans that give great deals if you pay for three years ahead of time for the low, low price of $450. Also, where will BONTO! be in 3 years? ¯\__(ツ)_/¯
You don' hate email; you hate capitalism.
Yeah, use disposable mail adresses for registering
I love how almost every societal complaint or struggle can be traced back to the idea that there are a small number of people trying to take the money from a large number of other people for as unfair of an exchange as physically possible.
BONTO! has had a security breach. Your data has been stolen. We're sorry.
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
Your privacy is very important to BONTO! Please give us permission to share your data with the following 465 companies
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.
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 🤣 🤣 🤣
I'm so happy this site is still running.
It's an enduring artifact of when the Internet was still fun.
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 cleavage@bust.com, 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.