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.
@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
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.
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
@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…
Musk’s attitude is “It’s mine, I can do whatever I please”. In the long run a person’s reply to this attitude is “Fair enough, keep it. I’ll use something else”. Like I and many others have.
What world are you living in? Every single person I know uses Yahoo for email, search, news, lemmy, calling taxis, ordering food, online shopping, streaming tv shows and movies and instant messaging
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.
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
I usually post my thoughts about stuff I consume (books tv series anime games movies music) or about stuff that gives me food for thought or opinions about what’s happening in the world. Links to my music when I produce it too.
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
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Isn’t this just a web browser? Magical do-all app
But with more walls around the garden
This man is for the birds!
@ajsadauskas @technology A multimedia platform. Will he eventually look towards ActivityPub as well?
@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.
and probably spectacularly sucking at everything
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.
I just hope he calls his video service xvideos
It would conflict with the real xvideos.
He is going to buy xvideos next and get into the porn industry
But only of himself deepfaked on other pornstars, he is in love with himself enough to do that.
Hope he makes one just for watching hamsters, could call it xhamster…
@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
@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.
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 )
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.)
They are like an abusive ex promising you everything after a breakup, but slowly undermining your will in general.
It kinda does apply tho
@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.
That’s the Cheesecake Factory.
Musk’s attitude is “It’s mine, I can do whatever I please”. In the long run a person’s reply to this attitude is “Fair enough, keep it. I’ll use something else”. Like I and many others have.
Who uses yahoo? Honestly cmon
What world are you living in? Every single person I know uses Yahoo for email, search, news, lemmy, calling taxis, ordering food, online shopping, streaming tv shows and movies and instant messaging
OF COURSE!
Whoosh
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.
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
I usually post my thoughts about stuff I consume (books tv series anime games movies music) or about stuff that gives me food for thought or opinions about what’s happening in the world. Links to my music when I produce it too.
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
Me neither. I come from Reddit. :/
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.
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”