Miss the old Twitter when I saw the stupid X animation.
Miss the old Twitter when I saw the stupid X animation.
I miss the old Twitter when I saw the stupid X animation.
Twitter X is Elon Musk’s world. Pretty soon he’ll have so much control over his platform that he can practically cron kings and manipulate outcomes to fit his personal political agenda. And don’t even get me started on his whole stupid “X the everything app bullshit.
The only everything app that has succeeded so far is WeChat in China. But it’s apparently a surveillance app for the masses by the government. Seriously, why the hell would I want to link my social media account with my bank account and even my government ID? What’s the benefit in that?
I’d rather keep the digital me disconnected to the real me.
The name is embarrassing and shows the intellect of someone we thought were intelligent but is just another self absorbed little boy craving for attention.
Musk is the definition of a man child.
31He is such a fuckin loser.
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I hope he gets sued by the organization that made that font. I don't think he was allowed to use it.
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2Unicode is an encoding... A font defines how those codes are rendered.
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No matter what Musk does, he continues to bleed users and advertisers.
It may not be going as fast as we like but the ship continues to take on water.
29fire everyone + break everything = the everything app
28"The everything app"... that can't even do basic social media correctly. Can it just die already?
13The everything appo ? Even whore aervice ?
13Reminds me of the old OS X Leopard welcome animation.
12That was so goddamn cool at the time. The whole install experience.
9Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/G9oIlXuaa3s?si=2wosEwp-_iZS3I7V
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
5Interesting, it was released in 2011.
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Oh cool. An animated logo... wow how tech-like...
11Can you really do everything with this app, or is it basically like Twitter?
9I don't want to do everything with this app or any app. An everything app means monopoly and manipulation.
11It also means an eventual failure
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Reminds me on the 2000 https://www.zombo.com/ joke
9At the moment it's just reskinned twitter, eventually he wants to turn it into Facebook with chat, calls, payments and such I guess.
4Not even reskinned, just with a stupid new logo
7Yeah if this is his plan it's clear he hasn't thought for a second about why 99% of the world would even want to replace their other apps with this mess, and that would been true even if he never gave anyone reason to hate him personally, which he's done in spades.
It's pathetic how obvious it is that it will fail hard.
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It's gonna be like yahoo.com circa 2012. Stocks, banks, messaging, email, news etc.
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First of all, you gotta understand why Elon wants to transform Twitter/X into an all-encompassing app. Let me tell you, because he wants to become the master of data.
Having a central cloud allows them to gather all user data and chat history in one place, which enables them to monitor us and use this data to refine algorithms. This, in turn, lets us become more addicted to the platform or allows them to sell our data for ads.
Storing everything in one place is quite convenient for the platform owner, but it's also a ticking time bomb for data leaks.
Migration recommendation: WireMin. I prefer it over Nostr, Bluesky, or even Threads. It's an entirely different concept. WireMin hasn't copied anything from Twitter; it's clear they are striving to create a completely new social platform. It's decentralized, private, secure, and supports free speech. If people are trying to migrate, I would recommend you all to check it out.
9What's wrong with Mastodon? It's already established.
23There's nothing wrong with Mastodon, but when comparing it to WireMin, I prefer the latter. Because Mastodon is part of the Fediverse, it's not fully decentralized. This means instance owners on Mastodon have certain privileges and can ban users.
While some might argue that a lack of moderation leads to chaos, but idc to be honest, I value the uncensored nature of platforms. On WireMin, I can remain completely anonymous, retain full ownership of my content, and no one can remove it. If someone disagrees with me, they can comment, just as in chat rooms.
Plus, WireMin displays only active spaces from the past 48 hours in the discovery section, and these are presented randomly. Advertisers are restricted to promoting within their own spaces, so if I don't wish to see their content, I simply avoid that space.
Sry, I am just in love with decentralized network.
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Closed source? Cringe.
23Nah, but it is decentralized, if you know what decentralized structure feels like, and from my user experience so far. And they are on dapp store, so I think they got reviewed. https://www.alchemy.com/dapps/wiremin
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Elon got the idea from China’s WeChat. Elon loves him some despots.
5What's the difference between WireMin and Mastodon?
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It's not just the data, it's also about getting a cut of any monetary interactions, essentially the Visa/MasterCard model. The company holding the "everything" app for a given region has an incredible potential to earn money.
4Wanting to be the master of data when Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Meta exist is cute :)
1Wether it's centralised isn't really the main issue with these platforms. It's their For-profit nature. Running a social platform in a for profit manner, is incredibly hard to do - only one company has been known to succeed, YouTube.. and they stopped reporting their earnings in 2015, so no one can tell if it's still profitable or not.
If you are a not for profit company trying to create a social platform, you've got more of a chance of it working. However if you're not for profit doing this, you need to release the soource code. That way if you decide to restructure into a for profit entity we can fork it and save said platform.
Decentralization is the result of the requirements of financing large userbase not for profit platforms in a sustainable way - it actively spreads the cost load across multiple not for profit servers. Allowing donations to be the income driver of the platform right from the beginning. Being not for profit requires that you only ever aim to cover the costs of running the servers - it doesn't require you to offer any additional services in order to increase revenue, or systems in order to lock people in.
The fact that the data is spread across this server network, inherently making data breaches worth somewhat less than a megalithic platform is literally just an unintended side benefit, despite the fact it's a little bit mitigated as a result of caching requirements.
The thing is, a for-profit platform can look at this financing model and try to twist it to their moneymaking advantage - just look at bluesky. It gets nonprofits to host services, while keeping a tight grip on the algorithms, by providing a library of them to "choose" - the source code is closed, as a result it's nearly impossible to tell if these servers are reporting analytics and data back to the central service (covered by the centralised algorithm provider and sign up system) for data collection and data sales.
A decentralized platform like that, allows the company to offload hosting costs by taking advantage of independent nonprofits, while also getting to make a huge profit by selling a fucktonne of data mined from these servers.
Also it removes the need for advertising providers be on the platform, which is a benifit not only because people don't like ads, but also because advertising companies are fickle and very hard to meet their brand safety demands and retain them. Advertising revenue is rarely stable or reliable.
-2If they were to publish their source code, I believe there wouldn't be a need to promote the software, and it would naturally gain traction. I questioned about this in their official chat room, and the response was that they're working on it.
For how they gain profitability, I've also questioned them about it, cuz it is complete free to use. But think about it, consider that a decentralized network remains active and stable as long as there is a substantial number of users participating. Each user acts as a node, reinforcing the network's stability. So, if they claim to be a free and non-profit platform, I find it trustworthy.
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But it is not the everything app?
9I think a lot of people hear “everything app” and it sounds kind of magical but this is actually a specific category of app already, and it mostly means Payments App+ Restaurant and Convenience Delivery App + Rideshare App.
An example is Careem, which serves the Dubai market only.
You’re totally correct that X is not one of these Apps. Even by this more constrained definition.
Uber is already 2/3 of the way to this in a dominant way with Uber and Uber Eats in one app. Both of those work very well and have already for years. Adding personal payments would probably mean lights out for anyone else with foolish “everything app” ambitions.
Musk is 0/3 of the way there. The ONLY thing he has has to work with is an installed base of users. A large number of people have this app on their phone and have an account. That is something. But he still has to create, well, everything to have an “everything” app, which, as I’ve already covered above, won’t do everything.
The installed base of logged in users is also less valuable than you might imagine because to do payments and delivery is also going to require everyone to enter bank info and home address and those are big asks just in terms of user effort but also privacy.
So good fucking luck, Elon. Being a media company driven by ads sucks and I don’t blame him for wanting out but he’s chosen the most expensive possible path to becoming Careem that I could imagine. I’m just a tech middle manager but I could have given him better corp strategy advice than this.
3yet?
1Maybe, but it is not even the app it was so the trend is going in the wrong direction to be everything.
8Sure. My VR theme park is not the biggest in the Metaverse yet either. Maybe one day.
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As ever, "we're going to do everything" neatly translates in to "we're going to do everything poorly".
7Reminds me of the welcome video for Mac OS X Snow leopard
6I would wipe my butt with the everything-app, but I doubt It will ever offer this service.
6It will come with 3 seashells.
6You need to use your phone with the app open for that service.
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The everything app, eh?
So you can manage your Tesla vehicle and Powerwall home battery and Tesla Solar Roof from it, surely?
5Hate to be stupid but where's the animation?
4I took a screenshot from the animation. If you want to see the complete version of this stupid animation: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1694256985233846492?s=20
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This is the most Simpsons ass shit I've ever seen in real life.
2I still read X, Twitter, whatever it is, but actually use Mastodon. The comments are the equivalent of football to the groin from the Simpsons to me. No doubt in my mind people are stupid enough to put all this information in, blame Joe Biden communism with a link to donate to help them keep up the fight.
2Try Nostr
1Interesting, I'll check it out.
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