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…
I can’t wait until he starts up the video streaming section as x videos.
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!
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.
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/@myname
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.
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
