fuck.it email

!fuckitemail@lemmy.world

Official community for fuck.it, a paid, invite-only email service hosted in Germany (Open-Xchange, ISO 27001, GDPR). No ads, no data mining, IMAP for any mail app, optional end-to-end encryption.

For users and the curious: questions, mail client setup help, bug reports, feature requests, and general email privacy talk. Run by the team, and we actually reply.

Already up: a setup guide, FAQ, a feature request thread and a deep dive into the history of the word fuck itself.

  • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Sounds really cool but not a fan of the AI slop video background. Makes me wonder if software they use is AI slop too.

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      7 days ago

      Looks like much of the text is slop too, the groups of 3 are very common with LLMs. I certainly wouldn’t trust this service with anything of importance.

      Choose your plan below and grab your exclusive [@fuck.it] email - secure, ad-free and refreshingly bullshit-free. No data mining. No creepy tracking. Just email that actually respects you. Feelin’ fancy? Snag a premium username during signup - shorter, cooler and impossible to forget.

    • fuckitteam@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 days ago

      Fair criticism.

      Yes, we use AI. Some of our visuals are AI-generated, some of our copy is AI-assisted and we use AI tools in development too. We’re not pretending otherwise. In development, AI is part of the normal toolkit in 2026. We use it to help review code, spot problems and catch potential security issues. Every change is reviewed and owned by humans. No vibe coding.

      What matters to us is where AI is NOT used: it doesn’t read your mail, profile your inbox, train on your data or make security decisions. Code changes are reviewed by humans.

      The mail infrastructure itself runs on Open-Xchange, a German company that has been building mail software since 2005 and powers mailboxes for large telecoms and hosting providers across Europe. That’s the part you’re trusting with your data, and it’s not something we built over a weekend.

      We’re open to everyone, whatever their background, ethnicity, religion or beliefs. And we’re just as open when it comes to art: some of the AI artists we feature have hundreds of thousands of followers, and we also collaborate with photographers like Sebastian Magnani and his Batman series. Photography was once called “not real art” too. Taste differs, and AI art is here to stay just like photography did.

      And yes, apparently groups of three are now evidence of LLMs. We’ll try writing in groups of four.

      Judge the service by its privacy, security, reliability and what we do with your data. Not by whether a paragraph has suspiciously tidy sentence structure.

        • steelplatedmech@piefed.ca
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          Yeah, art and writing is one area that really screams cutting corners, since that is something anyone can do without AI. And something many of us do on a daily basis.

          So if someone relies on writing simple sentences with AI it does send off an image of cheap and cutting corners using it for something that isn’t even complex like coding.

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        7 days ago

        When you use AI for visuals and text which is hard to argue is as complicated as writing code it makes people wonder if the chunk of text you submitted is even worth reading and isn’t just something you copy pasted from a bot.

        It also gives off a very cheap cutting corners vibe and not quality which isn’t great if the product relies on security, since if they can’t even write or draw do they really understood lines of code used to make their product?

  • Cherry@piefed.social
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    7 days ago

    This post looks like a AI Slop marketing ad.

    Don’t let the anarchistesque name fool you otherwise.

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      “with attitude” gives away the game. The only shit you make “with attitude” is marketing wank. If it was real you’d just do it and not beg people to believe how zany and uncaring you are. The whole thing feels like it was a decent idea glazed to death by AI.

    • fuckitteam@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 days ago

      Finally, someone who gets it ;) But yeah, that’s 50% of our marketing strategy. The other 50% is proper email.

  • Beanson@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    Curious whether this will be open sign up at some point or always invite only?

    • fuckitteam@lemmy.worldOP
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      Invite-only and paid, and we don’t plan to change that.Paid, because mailboxes, storage, infrastructure, development and support cost money. We’d rather charge for the service than fund it with ads, tracking or your data. Invite-only, because @fuck.it addresses are meant to stay exclusive, not something anyone can grab in bulk. It also protects everyone else: every mailbox shares the same sending infrastructure, and one spammer can get our IPs onto blocklists. Screening requests keeps that from happening. That said, getting in isn’t hard. Requests are usually reviewed within the hour.