It's like Yahoo, except for Nazis!
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I think his ideal business model is WeChat, which is extensively used in China.
Unfortunately he hasn't factored in "Get literally everything else banned by the government".
....I mean that could explain his very alt-right bent...
Endorse a fascist into office then ban the rest (this is no more likely than any general conspiracy theory though. We'll have to wait and see if that's what his actions actually align with in this coming election season to give this theory any actual weight)
What devs are going to make any of this "vision" happen? He let them go, and only kept the devs he can rule by fear. More to the point, IF Twitter tries to hire, who the fuck would answer that call to be ruled in an atmosphere of fear?
Can't pay the rent, can't pay a designer for a new "logo" (𝕏), can't even pay the severance for all the devs he fired, ....
From my understanding, most people in the tech industry (as in >50%) are probably left-leaning. And I guess Elon believes he will either be able to just code his dream site with AI (impossible,) or he will find enough conservative techies to do it for him, which seems improbable.
everyone has their price. with unlimited funds he should be able to make something pretty slick for whatever the vision is - not that I would ever use it, of course. But don't imagine that software engineers won't compromise their politics if the money is good. Given the necessity of income, you can rationalize anything if you really need to.
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Unrelated but I'm very impressed with how well this posted to Lemmy from Mastodon. Exceptional
Almost makes me think that we have a fighting chance to make tags on Lemmy work. Part of me would want to see tags get some unique formatting like post flairs, but even just inline tags would be a leg-up.
Or maybe both in-line and post tags. Neat stuff to daydream 🤔.
No, no you misunderstand...
The holy grail for these big corps is to replicate wechat. It's the everything app for over a billion people. Can you imagine the level of control you could exert over a population with a tool like that? It's everyone's wet dream to have something like that for Europe and the US.
And I mean everyone, not just Twitter. Facebook wants to do it, Google wants to do it. People who have never seen it in action don't really get it, there is no analog to wechat in the west. It's a chat program? With PayPal in it? No. You can pay parking tickets in wechat. This is what they're trying to turn Twitter into.
That's a basic rule that can be applied to lots of things: If a company offers a lot of different products or one product that can do everything, usually none of those are really good. Typical example would be a restaurant that serves everything from pizza/pasta, asian cuisine/sushi to steak, burgers and so on
"If a company offers a lot of different products or one product that can do everything, usually none of those are really good. "
I wish this applied to Google xD (Their search & web browser used to be good. Their cloud/photo storage and email services are still amazing.)
@Sina @Blaubarschmann Google is more like a restaurant that has a large chalk board covered with specials. The kind that has a soup of the day, and a fish of the day, and a chef's special.
There are a few core menu items that are perennials on its printed menu. Search, maps, photos, ads, Gmail, Google Docs, Chrome, Android, Chromebook, YouTube...
Then there's the messaging app of the day, the TV platform of the day, the flavour-of-the-month device selection...
He's trying to make zombo.com, but with an X.
Welcome to Xombocom. This is Xombocom. You can do anything at Xombocom. Anything at all. The only limit is yourself!
/Anything is possible!
History repeats itself...at xombocom
Oh man...this is an absolute blast from the past!
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Isn't this just a web browser? Magical do-all app
But with more walls around the garden
Meanwhile, TikTok has added text posts. For 1 billion monthly active users.
Whoa, I didn't know tiktok was so popular. it's like 1/8 of the entire world population, and considering that only about 70% of the world has internet access, it's like 18% of all internet users.
Or are lots of these bot accounts, like other social media, and the real numbers are lower?
Pretty much the entire Pacific rim, so it makes sense... but here's one analysis on bots:
https://www.fraud0.com/resources/tiktok-bots-fake-accounts-scam/
"Initial analysis from us shows a clear picture: up to 97% of all traffic coming through TikTok could be detected as automated bot requests by our software. These are frightening figures that cost many advertising companies a lot of money and waste their ad spend."
Also:
"In 2022 alone, TikTok removed:
Over 256 million accounts (including accounts suspected to be under the age of 13 and fake accounts – 282% increase vs. 2021)
Almost 160 million fake accounts (increase of over 1,200% (!) compared to 2021)
These numbers are only a fraction compared to Facebook’s total of over 6.5 billion fake accounts removed in 2021."
You forgot use it as a bank, hail transportation, order food.
Yes, his idea of the everything app was reportedly conceived in 1999.
And book medical appointments. These apps rely on zero privacy rights.
I'm gonna start calling it "Xhoo!"
I still like 𝕏eet (pronounced "sheet")
I like it
I switched to Mastodon yesterday.
I signed up for mastodon when he bought Twitter. The challenge is that I never actually used Twitter so I am lost on what to do with Mastadon. I repost and star posts that are fun but can’t figure out how to follow the conversation. Happy with Lemmy since it’s much easier to follow each conversation. Maybe I’m using Microblogging wrong.
My advice is follow hashtags for topics you like or are interested in. They will then show up in your feed. It's wonderfully personalized and I've found lots of great people that way with similar interests
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I can't wait until he starts up the video streaming section as x videos.
I wonder if competition law has anything to say about companies that do everything
You can do everything, unless one of those is a monopoly that you leverage for other products
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This is what happens when you keep telling a person that all their ideas matter.
Has fond memories of the Yahoo Answers Etiquette section.
Maybe we'll finally get an answer to the age old question.
"How is babby formed?"
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