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*@gmail.com (xkcd.com)
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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 61 points 10 months ago

I like how the idea of Google shutting down Gmail isn't even far-fetched, it's just something everybody can get behind. Google will shut it down one day

[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

I think Gmail, chat, and maybe calendar are unlikely to be discontinued because they're really heavily used internally.

[-] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Chat? It's on its 7th iteration or something. That's definitely not a safe feature.

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Voice, chat, messages(?), hangouts, not named and built into Gmail, what am I missing?

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 10 points 10 months ago

Yeah, but it's not crazy ridiculous that people wouldn't consider it.

[-] palebluethought@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Of course it is. People have really fixated on this "Google kills products" meme way, way beyond reality

Gmail is load-bearing software for, like, Western civilization at this point

[-] biddy@feddit.nl 7 points 10 months ago

Which chat? There's been too many shut down.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Google also presumably also gets soooooo much information for targeted ads from mining people's email

[-] fusio@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

nah.. some national/international entity would step in. would be absurd to lose the Gmail accounts

[-] Echo71Niner@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

Microsoft had to keep hotmail open for 10 years more than they wanted lol

[-] masuhiro@kbin.social 35 points 10 months ago

Whatever you do, DO NOT hit that expand button

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

The forbidden button...

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 22 points 10 months ago

Hi all, just replying to loop in *@outlook.com and *@yahoo.com.

[-] Teppic@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago

Mobile friendly version:
https://m.xkcd.com/2822/

[-] Echo71Niner@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago

THE. LAST. EMAIL.

[-] xuxebiko@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

somewhere someone is trying to mail @.com

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

I don't get it.

[-] lejsh@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"*" means wildcard, kind of like the wild in Uno. This means that the email is going to be sent to every single person with @gmail in their address. That's a lot of people.

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I get that part, just not the rest. (Well I do now, thanks to the other replies)

I appreciate your help, though.

[-] NullaFacies@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pBmuY6qFMPQ

I’m pretty sure it’s referencing this

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