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
and probably spectacularly sucking at everything
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
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 🤔.
@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.
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 @[email protected] )
@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 switched to Mastodon yesterday.
I was under the impression I can also see Mastodon posts on Lemmy? Sorry, I still don’t get the Fediverse.
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.
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. :/
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!
Can I play chess, tho?
Oh, no. Maybe Polytopia, though.
I don’t know. Let’s find out:
e4
Offer draw
I don’t have this one. Best I can give you is B1
d4
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Pronounced like the onomatopoeia for sneezing: Axhoo!
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I still like 𝕏eet (pronounced “sheet”)
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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."
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Whoosh
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
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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
That sectoid’s shit eating grin
@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
It’s like Yahoo, except for Nazis!
I stand corrected! LOL
Kinda like Yahoo! that is dead too
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”
@[email protected] @[email protected] 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.
@[email protected] 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.
