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[–] matmarspace@programming.dev 17 points 18 hours ago (3 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.

[–] cmt@lemmy.today 2 points 17 hours ago

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 :/

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

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.

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

BONTO! Has been turned into a cube

Click here to unsubscribe to the cube

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] Bieren@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

As far as most websites are concerned, yeah totally

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day 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.

[–] quant@leminal.space 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

And if for some godforsaken reason you're looking for help:

JOIN OUR DISCORD™ (whaddya mean you don't wanna?)

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 2 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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)_/¯

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 day 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

[–] TypFaffke@feddit.org 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Your privacy is very important to BONTO! Please give us permission to share your data with the following 465 companies

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day 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!

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day 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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[–] SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] Nachtnebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You don' hate email; you hate capitalism.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, use disposable mail adresses for registering

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 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.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (7 children)
[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 18 hours ago

I'm so happy this site is still running.

It's an enduring artifact of when the Internet was still fun.

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[–] gex@lemmy.world 229 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Then 3 years later

Brooks, Herman and Anderson Law firm - Bonto data privacy class action lawsuit

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Get your .0012¢ for a $7 processing fee!

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago

Email is the original Fediverse.

[–] piefood@feddit.online 35 points 2 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.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

No freaking kidding. I just wanted to set up an address to like, send me server notifications and stuff. Not worth the hassle!

An ever-present torrential maelstrom of email bot spam has spawned so many hoops and regulatory checks it made this process not worth it. And that's aside from just getting and keeping it running!

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, I've run one for decades. I keep thinking it will get easier but it never does. I get better at the old stuff, then new stuff comes up which makes it difficult again. I always had the intention to offer it to friends and family, but I've never felt confident that I could guarantee that it would work. These days I know what I'm doing, but I can never guarantee that emails sent from my domain will arrive. Google or Yahoo or Microsoft will sometimes just automatically mark things from my domain as SPAM even if I'm following all the SPF, DMARC, DKIM, whatever rules.

And that's all aside from the constant, unending stream of SPAM I'm dealing with, in addition to the constant, unending attempts to hack my server.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 101 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 119 points 2 days ago (16 children)

BONTO! was sooo good. Like it really improved the Slorpiness.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Wait what? BONTO is shutting down??? Aww man...

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