Email is the original Fediverse.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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- 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.
Hint: it's a private message from BONTO!-Bot offering you BONTO+! Premium Supreme! (It's BONTO! with less ads)
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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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
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.
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.
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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[quick look at my gmail]... I currently have 781 unread messages in my inbox.
Can anyone tell me how one of the richest companies on Earth doesn't have a "New Label" feature in their app? How? HOW?!?!?!??!
Rookie numbers.
0 here 🥳
And only 3 messages in spam but those are forwards from my gmail acct for notifications from google services. Can't be bothered to check if it's possible to use custom email instead because I should probably just stop using google altogether.
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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.
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.
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
Deleting your data for you. Their copy is theirs.
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Wait what? BONTO is shutting down??? Aww man...
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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BONTO! was sooo good. Like it really improved the Slorpiness.
No way! BONTO! was just the enshitfication of Slorp by a private equity firm.
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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?!
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.
When it's billing data I can see it, but if it's a notification that someone sent you a message, you know there's no reason they can't include the message text. They just want your engagement (looking at you, LinkedIn).
No, you're absolutely right. Hiding a message behind a login is essentially linkedin style click baiting.
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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.
You should have sent a reply email saying 'I know!'
My current personal hell is
Log in to use Splurp™️!
USERNAME: Bongo Password: Schleeb209-!AA12
An E-Mail has been sent to Bongo@bingus.gov 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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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 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.
What sort of team setting are you in that your whole team doesn't have a single IM messaging platform that everyone in your company has?
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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.
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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