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[–] matmarspace@programming.dev 20 points 3 days ago (4 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 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 :/

[–] matmarspace@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What about ip over avian carriers? I think it's better 😅

But yes. Email is great. :3

[–] cmt@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

Eh, it suffers from higher than useful packet loss and has absurdly high latency.

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[–] gex@lemmy.world 232 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Then 3 years later

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

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 75 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That hasn't been my experience. My portion of the settlement is usually about $100.00. it's insulting, but it still spends.

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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

bonto has settled and agreed to provide one year of credit monitoring

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 51 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

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

[–] TypFaffke@feddit.org 32 points 4 days 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 16 points 4 days 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!

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[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 4 days 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

[–] SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Bieren@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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

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[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days 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.

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 3 points 3 days ago

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

[–] quant@leminal.space 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

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

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

*joins discord*

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*

BONMASTER_420 says "first its called BONMO~ not bonmo and the answer is in the sauce we really dont have time to answer the questions of ever fukwit that joins the discord plus its not are job to explain why bronto did shit different tard fork it if you don't like it shitbeqd"

*1hr 12 minutes later*

BleachAnime2009 says "Again with the ctrl-c/ctrl-v thing? Jesus christ learn how to use the search function would you guys? This has been discussed to death."

You say "Sorry, I tried searching but don't see an answer. I'm not a programmer either so if you could just tell me I'd appreciate it."

*You have been kicked*

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[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 29 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You don' hate email; you hate capitalism.

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[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 103 points 5 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

[–] OCATMBBL@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days ago

Deleting your data for you. Their copy is theirs.

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[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 118 points 5 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] radiohead37@lemmynsfw.com 50 points 5 days ago

No way! BONTO! was just the enshitfication of Slorp by a private equity firm.

[–] CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (11 children)

<unwarranted rage No way, BONTO! sucked. You couldn't even Slorp your entire friends list anymore, and they added all of those BONTOgrams for no reason. We disagree on a topic, so I despise you now and your entire genetic line. </rage

But you should really try NeWSlarP, a FLOSS fork of Slorp by the original developer that brings back both SlorpTokens and Schlarpmänner!

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

"BONTO is selling your personal info to Google! Click this non-working link to opt out!"

[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 35 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Those meme email chains were annoying at the time, but kinda endearing to look back on in retrospect.

I kept getting added onto ones my mum and dad were getting from a bunch of their friends that had people's random corporate/work email addresses included and stuff.....

It was a simpler time, when boomers hadn't discovered social media yet, and were making their own fun without Facebook and without the algorithm.

If someone offered me a chance to magic social media away like it never happened, and the price I had to pay was unfunny memes spamming my inbox, it's a price I'd pay gladly.

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[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 59 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

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?!

[–] MU5T4N6@feddit.org 44 points 5 days ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] piefood@feddit.online 36 points 5 days ago (3 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.

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[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 days ago (3 children)
  • 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)

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[–] sturger@sh.itjust.works 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 44 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 49 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

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.
[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Will happen to every new medium eventually. It's inevitable under capitalism.

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[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 28 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Don't forget

  • "BONTO! is sneakily roping you into a binding private arbitration clause because they're planning to do some real shady shit that'll affect a critical mass of users!

(At the bottom of the email)

...You can still opt to use the public justice system that already exists if you disagree with this. You simply must send your disagreement in writing upon a clay tablet delivered by a specific courier to a remote P.O Box in Illinois within the next 32 business hours.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Specifically make sure that the "subscribe to newsletter and offers" is NOT checked.

Get a marketing email from them within 24 hours anyway.

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