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I miss the old Twitter when I saw the stupid X animation.

~~Twitter~~ X is Elon Musk’s world. Pretty soon he’ll have so much control over his platform that he can practically cron kings and manipulate outcomes to fit his personal political agenda. And don’t even get me started on his whole stupid “X the everything app bullshit.

The only everything app that has succeeded so far is WeChat in China. But it’s apparently a surveillance app for the masses by the government. Seriously, why the hell would I want to link my social media account with my bank account and even my government ID? What’s the benefit in that?

I’d rather keep the digital me disconnected to the real me.

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[–] torafugu@artemis.camp 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hope he gets sued by the organization that made that font. I don't think he was allowed to use it.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 year ago

No matter what Musk does, he continues to bleed users and advertisers.

It may not be going as fast as we like but the ship continues to take on water.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The name is embarrassing and shows the intellect of someone we thought were intelligent but is just another self absorbed little boy craving for attention.

Musk is the definition of a man child.

[–] s1vgm@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

He is such a fuckin loser.

[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 year ago

fire everyone + break everything = the everything app

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

"The everything app"... that can't even do basic social media correctly. Can it just die already?

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Oh cool. An animated logo... wow how tech-like...

[–] coco@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

The everything appo ? Even whore aervice ?

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

That was so goddamn cool at the time. The whole install experience.

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[–] s1vgm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting, it was released in 2011.

[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But it is not the everything app?

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think a lot of people hear “everything app” and it sounds kind of magical but this is actually a specific category of app already, and it mostly means Payments App+ Restaurant and Convenience Delivery App + Rideshare App.

An example is Careem, which serves the Dubai market only.

You’re totally correct that X is not one of these Apps. Even by this more constrained definition.

Uber is already 2/3 of the way to this in a dominant way with Uber and Uber Eats in one app. Both of those work very well and have already for years. Adding personal payments would probably mean lights out for anyone else with foolish “everything app” ambitions.

Musk is 0/3 of the way there. The ONLY thing he has has to work with is an installed base of users. A large number of people have this app on their phone and have an account. That is something. But he still has to create, well, everything to have an “everything” app, which, as I’ve already covered above, won’t do everything.

The installed base of logged in users is also less valuable than you might imagine because to do payments and delivery is also going to require everyone to enter bank info and home address and those are big asks just in terms of user effort but also privacy.

So good fucking luck, Elon. Being a media company driven by ads sucks and I don’t blame him for wanting out but he’s chosen the most expensive possible path to becoming Careem that I could imagine. I’m just a tech middle manager but I could have given him better corp strategy advice than this.

[–] Mesaji@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe, but it is not even the app it was so the trend is going in the wrong direction to be everything.

Sure. My VR theme park is not the biggest in the Metaverse yet either. Maybe one day.

[–] ItsaB3AR@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of the welcome video for Mac OS X Snow leopard

[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would wipe my butt with the everything-app, but I doubt It will ever offer this service.

[–] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

It will come with 3 seashells.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

You need to use your phone with the app open for that service.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The everything app, eh?

So you can manage your Tesla vehicle and Powerwall home battery and Tesla Solar Roof from it, surely?

[–] 1ird@notyour.rodeo 2 points 1 year ago

This is the most Simpsons ass shit I've ever seen in real life.

[–] sucricdrawkcab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still read X, Twitter, whatever it is, but actually use Mastodon. The comments are the equivalent of football to the groin from the Simpsons to me. No doubt in my mind people are stupid enough to put all this information in, blame Joe Biden communism with a link to donate to help them keep up the fight.

[–] jack@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] sucricdrawkcab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting, I'll check it out.