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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*
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You don’ hate email; you hate capitalism.
I believe emails should not be used. There are or should be better alternatives. Account creation should be handled by passkeys.
Email is legacy. Insecure and content is just a webpage…
What is your alternative idea that isn’t just improved email?
In my country we have something called BankID. BankID, it’s Sweden’s leading electronic identification system, widely used for banking, e-government services, and secure logins. So I use it to login to the bank, check my taxes, hospital status, bookings etc. Basically the message itself is already on their website and never leaves them.
Subscriptions? We have RSS.
Buying something? Login to the website and see your order.
Delivery of something you bought and want to see when the packet arrives? You have an smartphone app for that. Like login to company app and view. You even get push notifications.
And for those people who actually get a message from a person instead of a company. You have chat, like Microsoft Teams, Slack, Discord etc. You even can have voice and video conference with the other person. Chat is instant messaging and is not slow compared to email.
Account registration? Make use of OpenID. Or even better passkeys.
Bonus: In my country we have Kivra - government post. Any company can get it and send the normal letter in a digital format - basically the none printed version of the letter so a PDF.
You really want emails replaced by a thousand applications OR emails controlled by the government?
Emails controlled by the government? No, never. Emails are a decentralized protocol and there is no point what so ever to have the government controlling it. Look, emails are not safe, not encrypted. See all emails as public knowledge. If I go to their website and login to view sensitive information about me, then it is safer. Apps are optional.
If you are talking about Kivra then there are private companies alternatives as well. You as a user pick and choose. Personally I dont use it as I get like one letter per year and would forget to login to it. There are better alternatives for normal letters as well.
Email is quite a bit safer than people think, especially if you host your own. Typically it is encrypted from point to point, so if a company emails me it goes through their internal system to their gateway, is encrypted using SSL and transmitted directly to my server where it’s stored until I connect over an SSL encrypted link to download my mail
Even an ISP will have almost everything encrypted as it really is the default now
There’s practically no chance for a man in the middle attack
I do accept unencrypted mail but nothing arrives on port 25 (unencrypted email) except scam attempts to get spam forwarded (which are denied)
Many do not run their own email server. It is just too hard. Companies choose Microsoft or Gmail to host email as it is cheap for them or included in something like office 365. Google have admitted that they read users’ email in search for custom advertisement. I would assume the same is true for Microsoft. On the inside we just have to trust them that they don’t make too many copies to foreign power or abuse it in any other way.
On the private side(not companies), Gmail really dominate. Very many don’t even know what selfhosting is and even fewer have the know-how and actually do it for email. People just don’t want that burden of selfhosting, maintenance, work. I would love the world to get more decentralized, use peer to peer, but today everything is more centralized than ever before.
Email should be E2EE, but that is never going to happen without the big players on that train - they just have too huge market share and that would go against their profitability.
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.
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.
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Slorp was so much better before they changed their name to Bonto. Only young people prefer Bonto, and they’re idiots.
Bonto killed Slorp, Bonto is the only reason it shutdown.
Are you being serious? Slorp sucked. I think that’s why they chose the name… because it sounds like sucking.
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Specifically make sure that the “subscribe to newsletter and offers” is NOT checked.
Get a marketing email from them within 24 hours anyway.
I’ve seen quite a few sites that require you to tick the box to not receive marketing, maybe it’s that
I once considered buying a product. Got as far as putting my contact and address in (no account).
I’ve changed my mind last minute, and they’ve been badgering me every since, clearly having recorded my details for marketing purposes before I ever pressed a single button.This is in the EU too, I should rat on their ass
They just blatantly ignore your preferences because they know there will be no consequences.
The one thing that generally works well in Canada at least is that they must provide a way to unsubscribe at the bottom of the email. The complaint process is relatively simple and the fines for violations are steep.
Christ I’m old enough to have received the Canter and Siegal green card lottery email.
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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.
I remember when phones used to be good.
Telemarketers have been around for a long, long time (Wikipedia claim “…the practice of contacting potential customers by telephone originated in the late 19th century.”).
I personally recall a lot more telemarketing in the 90s, though I was a kid and just passed the phone to mom or dad. But that was also a time when caller ID was a luxury, and not everyone had answering machines.
The last time I had a landline was 16 years ago when my wife briefly had a home office. Her employer required the landline as part of the home office setup (they paid for it).
We got spammed by robocallers every 5-10 minutes all day long and half the night. It was so bad that my wife never knew when a work call was coming in and had to let every call go to voicemail.
We didn’t unplug the phone just turned the answering machine to silent. We still got calls on a supposedly disconnected number.
Will happen to every new medium eventually. It’s inevitable under capitalism.
I think a lot about a post I saw that said “you hate every piece of capitalism but refuse to connect the dots to see that picture”
Rss? Granted I haven’t touched it in years so idk if it’s still good
It’s still good. It’s great even. The best part is you can’t “leak” an RSS address so when you subscribe to something you won’t be added to spam without you knowing. It’s a great medium.
I never knew when email was useful. It’s all cold calls, or useless actions and full of anxiety experience. And in the middle of all that still have to be careful with spam and phishing. Some people say that is useful for quick messages, but then if in a thread with people during one day or two all the freaking messages are like “Hi Mark,… Best Regards” bullshit, forcing me to go to the search engine trying to find a closing statement different than previous…
Really, email, my only wish is for it to die. And everyone just expects you to know how to use it, with those useless and weird Bcc and Cc and other weird magical keywords. Don’t get me started on “email etiquette” when everybody does it differently and if you go to some mailing lists you are immediately bullied or dismissed just because you don’t know the magical incantations they work with…
It’s all bullshit and I deeply hate it in my soul. Truly a tech from the 60s.
Skill issue
PEBKAC.
ID10T error
they hated him for speaking the truth
You missed the one about the data breach that they are still investigating, but subtly hint that your full contact details, credit card, social security number, health status, sexual orientation, bank account, and passwords were sold on the dark web.
I love email, recently started subscribing to artists’ and illustrators’ (non-substack) newsletters and it’s a great way to stay informed if they otherwise only have fascist social media accounts. The newsletters somehow also feel more personal than meny social media posts.
I understand the struggle. I do. I still have an “Under construction” page on the domain I bought like a decade ago because I want a decent artist portfolio site and Wordpress is not the super easy dream they all claimed so I’ve nuked it like a dozen times. (And tried Grav, and Hugo, and…)
But seriously WHY do so many great artists like, even ones who could afford hosting a dedicated page, ONLY have an Instagram?! (And now a TikTok ugh). One AI-decided account ban or rebrand or algorithm change or whatever and their entire portfolio and audience are just gone.
It’s really sad that there aren’t more non-developer targeted FOSS projects for just getting a halfway decent page going. All those sites like Wix or Square charge a ridiculous amount and still give you a bloated mess that doesn’t function unless people allow tons of chonky JavaScript.
/rant lol…
Ooof, so much this. Artists only having Insta is only topped by antifascist (and similar: eco, anti-racism etc.) groups only posting on Insta and FB but nowhere else +___+
I also loathe that even if artists have a website chances are above 90% that they’re Squarespace so they don’t have RSS feeds meaning I’ll never see new cool stuff that they might post since I’ll never remember going to their site again, but if it would just pop up in my feed reader that would be just too cool, I guess.
Not sure if it would really be an alternative to Insta/Squarespace for creative people but I loooove https://neocities.org/browse (do they have RSS feeds? I need to check).
