X adds video calling — and lets strangers ring you: Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up::Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up
My guy, Facebook has had this feature for 10 years.
I can already make video calls from Signal, which isn’t run by neofarcists.
(That was a typo, but it’s fitting.)
An “Everything App” is just an operating system.
You nailed it, he wants to create OS X.
OS X already exists…it’s just renamed to macOS these days
I’m pretty sure that was the joke
Well it’s hard to tell sarcasm online, especially when no steps to convey tone or articulation have been added to the text formatting.
I apologize, in the future I will demarcate all jokes with XML
joketags.Or, you know, instead of pulling a straw man simply italicize part of the comment to emphasize sarcasm…
I get that you have a hard time recognizing jokes and non-literal language, and I really do sympathize, but it’s unreasonable to expect everyone to change the way they write. Realistically, it’s just not going to happen. Your options are to accept that you will frequently misunderstand people or try to level up your reading comprehension.
Sold on his very own special X boxes.
An explanation I’ve heard for why we don’t have “everything apps” in the US is because we all have an app store on our phones and that’s the niche the everything apps were really solving for.
Also, everyone is locked into using credit cards.
That and i think we also adopted technology differently. Places like China or india in a way skipped most of the PC/Laptop phase and went straight to smartphones as their main device to access everything. On a PC/Laptop you’ll access most things through a browser, so many services already existed this way and also remain accessible through that.
And even to this day many will prefer to do some things on a larger screen rather than a smartphone, even if by now it is the primary device.
How do you get the everything app in the first place if you don’t have an app store?
Comes pre-installed on the phone. I think it was possible to download apps from websites too, it was just not as convenient.
So is there like a single app on their Home Screen?
They tap it and it opens an app with a bunch of other apps in it? Or a bunch of tabs, or other widgets you have to scroll around to find the functionality you want?
I get why China would want this, for content control. But I don’t see why india or anywhere else would want this.
There are still like calculator apps and web browsers and such, “everything” is more like instead of Paypal/Venmo, you use WeChat. Instead of ApplePay, WeChat. Instead of Facebook, WeChat. Instead of Uber, WeChat. It’s just all that functionality smashed into one app.
I don’t think it’s designed by the state to be centralized, it’s just how things happened in a lot of Asia.
The idea of an everything app (AKA Superapp) is that all of it’s features are interoperable. The OS doesn’t do anything except provide an environment for apps to run.
With, like, 20 employees, how can they support this?
Bold of you to assume there’s any support.
Probably built it off Jitsi
I mean, Jeff said he got it covered… yeah, Jeff’s got this one.
Why do people still use X these days? Stop using and EM will eventually be forced to close the company down
The system means that all accounts are liable to receive calls from accounts you follow, or those run by people whose number you have in your address book. To be able to call someone, they must have sent at least one direct message to your account.
You’re not going to get phone calls from just any rando.
You’re right. Cause I deleted that app months ago.
“They must have sent one DM” - so any rando that has sent an unwelcome DM can follow it with a call?
To be able to call someone, they must have sent at least one direct message to your account.
Emphasis mine.
To me, it seems like it means that for me to be able to call you, you need to send me at least one DM AND be following me. So, in essence, any rando that you folllow and have previously sent a DM to can call you.
It’s an or not an and. So both conditions don’t have to be true.
That’s my interpretation. If you follow someone, and have sent them a message previously, it’s a reasonable assumption you want to talk to them.
Stragglers of a dying platform get new bait and switch service. Expect fees once enought people use it.
It already requires the monthly subscription to use.
This would be a good reason to delete my X account
This would be like the 18th good reason.
Do it!
I’m sure no predators will be calling people fully nude, no way thats going to happen
If they follow predators maybe they want a lil peek
Everyone’s their best on the Internet.
Join Mastodon y’all!
Anyone still on twitter who is actually affected by this deserves every bit of it. What else did they think Musky was going to do.
BRB, double-checking that shitty app is not on my phone…
He is really after making it an “everything app” which nobody uses. Anyone here really has twitter or Facebook installed on their phone ?
I have Twitter installed on my phone
Deleted the app from my phone the day Elmo took control. Still use it via Firefox with Tampermonkey and Control Panel for Twitter, I only see stuff from those I follow, and anyone with a paid subscription is blocked. Tolerable like this.
The PWA is decently tolerable, but at least on Android 14 the Firefox one has some annoying visual issues pretty frequently. That said, anything is better than installing the actual app and giving that POS even the smallest amount of access to my phone’s info.
The average lemmy user maybe not, but year hundreds of millions of people still use twitter, and billions use Facebook.
Started using mastodon recently, but I still surf twitter to see what my friends are tweeting about.
People still using it?
Headline: “let’s anyone you follow potentially call you up”
Article: “To be able to call someone, they must have sent at least one direct message to your account.”
This makes total sense. Your DM conversation has too much back and forth so you say “let’s take it to an audio or video call”, and then hash it out in person.
There’s a reason Slack has this exact same feature…
I think the problem here is there’s no prior consent. If you’ve DM’d someone in the past, they can now call you. Twitter never had video call before, and the people who use it never expected to be giving consent for a video call maybe even several years later.
Why did we go from the more descriptive "private message (PM) to direct (DM)like why replace it? Anyone know?
Because of the implication it’s not actually private, since admins can see it and/or it’s used for analytics.
It’s still private for the purposes that other users can’t see it.
Yeah, however the term is disingenuous.
But still not actually private
