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
Kinda like Yahoo! that is dead too
Can I play chess, tho?
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
Oh, no. Maybe Polytopia, though.
It’s like Yahoo, except for Nazis!
I stand corrected! LOL
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.
This is what happens when you keep telling a person that all their ideas matter.
Who uses yahoo? Honestly cmon
Whoosh
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?
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.
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, …
@ajsadauskas @technology A multimedia platform. Will he eventually look towards ActivityPub as well?
Isn’t this just a web browser? Magical do-all app
But with more walls around the garden
@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.
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)
May he sink a lot of money into his vision.
@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 )
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.
and probably spectacularly sucking at everything
