@hacks4pancakes Its been a very long time since I’ve received an email from an actual person outside of work.

@rabbit
"My dearest Rabbit,

May this email find you enjoying internet carrots and hopping in a meadow. I am sending you this email just to say hi.

Warmest Regards,

-Chilly"
@hacks4pancakes

@chillybot @hacks4pancakes
“Chilly, my old friend!

Waaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhpppppppppppppp!?!1?

-Rabbit”

@chillybot @rabbit @hacks4pancakes

My Deerist Rabit:

Hope finds you weal. I lawyer with Smith & co from Canada. You are named soul error of Ms Green whom has gifted you $3 million in estate. Contact to confirm delivery of estate.

@mreeder @chillybot @hacks4pancakes Wow, that's the third time today! I should put you in touch with the Nigerian lawyer who is also settling an estate for me. You can collaborate.

@rabbit @chillybot @hacks4pancakes

Rabit,

KNOW!! That lawyer fraud! Contakt mee for setlmend! I knows his work very bad.

@rabbit @hacks4pancakes I bought someone's discography on bandcamp and they DM'd me to say thanks, which showed up as an email from bandcamp

does that count

@rabbit @hacks4pancakes otherwise I don't know what the last email from an actual person I got would be (outside work)
@hacks4pancakes I'm missing the:
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@Dany @hacks4pancakes
The good old days before BONTO became zurq*.
@hacks4pancakes The funniest part is how emails look when you don't load all the external content 😂
@kluthulhu @hacks4pancakes Well, as for me, I almost forgot how an email would look if all the external content was loaded. I turned it off for default view. Some emails don't even have any meaningful text in them, I simply delete those.
@jdoe @hacks4pancakes Oh, same here.
I just don't have that option for my corpo mailboxes 😅
@kluthulhu @hacks4pancakes Ah, corpo. Nope, not my asset on not my device. Therefore not my security. I don't care, it's not my email.
not a day goes by where I don't miss BONTO!™
@hacks4pancakes we need to bring back superstitious chain email
@morb @hacks4pancakes Forward this email IMMEDIATELY or 30 of your CLOSEST family members will DIE in a ~~~FiErY cAr CrAsH~~~
@hacks4pancakes ...and then it's 30 emails a week from various "marketing agencies" (aka spammers) that *somehow* got their hands on BONTO!'s account information.
@hacks4pancakes What is everyone using instead of email?
@azitopian Disposable email is predominant.
@hacks4pancakes “We regret to inform you that BONTO! has suffered a data breach.”
@hacks4pancakes It's weird when nostalgia twists shitty phishing scams and repeatedly forwarded chain emails into something we'd prefer.

@hacks4pancakes

Created account on spring.me, one of those 'ask me questions anonymously' sites.

Receives an email a few years later:
"Spring.me has joined forces with Twoo and now has 30% more charm, 40% more love and 70% more awesomeness.

And the extra cool thing? Your new Twoo account is ready for you, right now. Your important Spring.me data also made the switch! You’re welcome!"

Endless emails and tedious steps to remove the new 'Twoo' account.

Twoo shuts down.

@hacks4pancakes

I can't take any corporation seriously that puts emojis in email subjects

@hacks4pancakes I still get a lot of value out of some newsletters and groups, but I fear these too are going away.
@hacks4pancakes Man I miss Slorp. It all went wrong with BONTO! The ui and care for the all us Slorp goblins just wasn't the same.
@hacks4pancakes They forgot the “New login detected. Was this you?” and “$MONTH_NAME Update: Now with feature you did NOT ask for!” emails 😂
@hacks4pancakes I laughed so hard at the "BONTO misses you” into “BONTO is shutting down” 😂 There’s a little dose of guilt hiding there in plain sight: ifwe had just given BONTO a bit more attention they wouldn't have shutdown.

@hacks4pancakes

Truth.

I get 40 or more emails a day, two of which are personal. The others go to the junk folder.

Email is no longer cool. Now everyone wants to text you ... at all hours.

@zachvat @hacks4pancakes Yeah the only thing worse than my email inbox is my SMSes (and my app notifications have now started advertising at me)
@hacks4pancakes needs one more line * 300k emails, personal data, passwords leaked in BONTO database breach
@hndrcks a notification from HaveIBeenPwned
@hacks4pancakes
So that is what happened to my Slorp account.
@hacks4pancakes you can just use @delta - than email got a whole new meaning and make other messenger apps obsolete..
^ @fuzzle
@cccfr @hacks4pancakes @delta @fuzzle I was just about ask what could be a good decentralized alternative for email.
@fst @hacks4pancakes @delta @fuzzle depends totally on your goal and the willingness of your communication partners to follow along
@hacks4pancakes Oho! Somebody does not know #deltachat – a modern messenger that runs on good old email. If email gives you great 90's vibes you'll be impressed what it can do now. Not even kidding.

https://delta.chat/
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@hacks4pancakes
Bonto has been hacked. Please change all of your passwords
@hacks4pancakes I miss the old Slorp. Now I'm on ClipkClop.
@hacks4pancakes I hope this push society back to use snail Mail when sending letter/cards.
@hacks4pancakes I should have never sent Slorp a DNA sample.
@hacks4pancakes Somehow--I've always known to never open mail from 'Any unexpecteds--Like Junk mail--same thing--don't waste your time!
@hacks4pancakes
I still use a ton of email. I've never used any bonto...

@hacks4pancakes

Agreed email had its day. Time to move everyone over to move on to ecryptied IM messaging

@tchambers @hacks4pancakes

> Agreed email had its day. Time to move everyone over to move on to ecryptied IM messaging

Like Delta Chat for example 😉 Email is dead. Long live Email!

@hacks4pancakes It used to be that the only person who would call me on my landline was my grandmother. Similarly, now the only person who will email me is my mother.
@hacks4pancakes so fecking true, and this is why I refuse to register any new accounts!