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
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.
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 🤔.
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”
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.
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. :/
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.
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 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.
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
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
@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.
Who uses yahoo? Honestly cmon
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
OF COURSE!
It’s like Yahoo, except for Nazis!
I stand corrected! LOL
I just hope he calls his video service xvideos
It would conflict with the real xvideos.
He is going to buy xvideos next and get into the porn industry
But only of himself deepfaked on other pornstars, he is in love with himself enough to do that.
Hope he makes one just for watching hamsters, could call it xhamster…
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I still like 𝕏eet (pronounced “sheet”)
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Pronounced like the onomatopoeia for sneezing: Axhoo!
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@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 )
May he sink a lot of money into his vision.
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.
This is what happens when you keep telling a person that all their ideas matter.
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
