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

  • zucky@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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

  • Blaubarschmann@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    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

    • Sina@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      "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.)

      • AJ Sadauskas@aus.socialOP
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        1 year ago

        @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…

        • kool_newt@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 year ago

          And a bunch of items you really don’t want to order even if they are technically on the menu.

  • Jon Payne Sr@mstdn.social
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    1 year ago

    @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.

    • zhunk@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      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] )

    • John Stonier@mstdn.ca
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      1 year ago

      @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

      • John Stonier@mstdn.ca
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        1 year ago

        @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.

  • stravanasu@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • fuser@quex.cc
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      1 year ago

      The best part is watching these idiots blow their fortunes thinking they are going to continue building on the old paradigm of monolithic platforms when the ground is gradually shifting towards diversification via decentralization and they are behind the curve now, not in front of it. This is not your dad’s internet. Hopefully they continue splashing out huge amounts of cash in ill-fated efforts to prove they are still relevant. There’s no fool like an old fool - and old, rich technically-out-of-touch fools who lack the self-awareness to stop imagining they are hip are particularly amusing.

      • lorez@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Just a question: how do I link to my mastodon profile on something like Bandcamp? It doesn’t accept the URL starting with the @ :/

    • SubPrimeBadger@lemmynsfw.com
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • lorez@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        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.

      • ModularTable@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        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

    • Hackepeter@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I was under the impression I can also see Mastodon posts on Lemmy? Sorry, I still don’t get the Fediverse.

      • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        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

      • kimpilled@infosec.pub
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        1 year ago

        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.

    • swnt@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I mean… it’s also a step back - which kinda fits the entire fiasco well

  • Jim P.@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    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!