So Elon’s a “visionary” who wants to turn X into a single website where you can do everything — kinda like Yahoo!
He wants his new MySpaceX portal to be a website…
Where you can message people: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger
Where you can stream audio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com
Where you can stream videos: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Screen
Where you can create social media posts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_360%C2%B0
Where you can manage your finances: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Finance
Where you can share photos: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Photos
Where you can earn money publishing content: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Publisher_Network
Where you can find a job: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_HotJobs
Where you can buy and sell stuff: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Auctions
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this truly is a vision for the future — if by “the future” you mean 1997.
#tech #technology #twitter #X #musk #ElonMusk @technology #yahoo
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…
And a bunch of items you really don’t want to order even if they are technically on the menu.
They are like an abusive ex promising you everything after a breakup, but slowly undermining your will in general.
That’s the Cheesecake Factory.
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!
You can do anything at zombo com
Reminds me of Bazoomer.com.
The unattainable is unknown at Xombocom.
I can’t wait until he starts up the video streaming section as x videos.
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)
I switched to Mastodon yesterday.
hell yes
Just a question: how do I link to my mastodon profile on something like Bandcamp? It doesn’t accept the URL starting with the @ :/
Link to your URL on your home instance, e.g.
https://mastodon.something/@mynameThanks a lot!
I was under the impression I can also see Mastodon posts on Lemmy? Sorry, I still don’t get the Fediverse.
A few weeks ago I found that the server software of Lemmy wasn’t really prepared for that yet. You were able to open a Mastodon users profile (it wasnt easy, though), but you werent able to subscribe to it as on Lemmy you cannot subscribe to users, and since content is only synced to Lemmy (e.g. from a community) if users are subscribed to it on your server, posts of Mastodon users didnt get synced, and so you didnt see anything.
I don’t know if it has changed yet, did not try it again since then, but I think theres an issue on Lemmy’s github repo about this
Yes, but it’s a bit weird and the interface isn’t designed for it. I keep them separate, but I could see it being useful in a pinch.
Me neither. I come from Reddit. :/
If by “the future” you mean 1997
That’s funny because part of the reason Musk wanted to turn Twitter to X was because he’s been squatting on the domain since the late 90s
Nah, he bought it from Paypal in 2017.
He founded X.com which became PayPal. No one buys a domain back 2 decades later for no reason, unless you’re a manchild who’s been having wet dreams about it and can’t let that stupid name go
I wonder if he knows about the game Xcom
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That sectoid’s shit eating grin
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.
May he sink a lot of money into his vision.
The best part is watching these idiots blow their fortunes thinking they are going to continue building on the old paradigm of monolithic platforms when the ground is gradually shifting towards diversification via decentralization and they are behind the curve now, not in front of it. This is not your dad’s internet. Hopefully they continue splashing out huge amounts of cash in ill-fated efforts to prove they are still relevant. There’s no fool like an old fool - and old, rich technically-out-of-touch fools who lack the self-awareness to stop imagining they are hip are particularly amusing.
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."
@ajsadauskas@aus.social @technology@beehaw.org for photos, Flickr also fits: it is owned by Yahoo since 2005
I get the sentiment, but Flickr hasn’t been owned by Yahoo for a while. They were purchased by the folks that run SmugMug.
@mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org Oh, you’re right! I didn’t know about that. My bad 😄
It’s all good. I only know because I’ve been a paying customer since pretty much the beginning.
@mnrockclimber @clement also, it’s all good. The new custodians are much better than Yahoo was.
@ajsadauskas @technology He couldn’t even be bothered to create an actual unique logo. Instead he used a public domain Unicode character. (U+1D54F). I hear the Xodus has begun and the bird site is slowly being Xpunged :) He couldn’t even get the sign replaced without controversy.
@Lockpro @ajsadauskas @technology oh, it isn’t unique, but X.com has been in Elon’s head since 1993 when he worked for the Bank of Nova Scotia for a summer job assistant to the VP Strategic planning. It was’nt BNS’s plan, but Elon’s to put every banking function online. A few years later #Xcom was operating in SiValley, but Elon’s Board lost confidence in his grand design, and removed him as CEO. …/2
@Lockpro @ajsadauskas @technology
Instead they focussed on payments only, which was the plan of a failing startup that merged with X.com a few months earlier - it was operating down the hall from X.coms small 2nd floor office. The name of that startup ended up replacing X.com’s — PayPal.
In 2003 PayPal was sold to EBay and Elon’s share of the sold company funded his investment in two new startups, Tesla, and SpaceX. His share after tax was USD $300M.
I hear the Xodus has begun and the bird site is slowly being Xpunged
There hasn’t been much movement to Mastodon this time compared to when the rate limiting was going on. It looks like there was a decent new user spike yesterday, but the rate limit thing caused a big sustained increase for days.
(Based on @mastodonusercount@mastodon.social )
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How the heck do I monetize this without looking like an ass?
On the flip side, Elon doesn’t need to care about that anymore, does he?
@ajsadauskas @technology from Y to X, thats just a logical step
I mean… it’s also a step back - which kinda fits the entire fiasco well
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?”
“By being pregnante”
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.
That’s true. I’m unemployed, I’d probably take a job working for him. Doubt it would last long because I have a dumb mouth that can’t stay shut when it should
