The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.
I love this meme format
lolololololol
Jose is not happy
So is he changing name again to XVideo?
Xvideo? I never heard of that before um…
I’m going to purchase xvideos.com right now!
Too late, some mastermind from the Czech Republic already did it in '98
He likes the letter X so much, why not prepend 2 more while you’re at it
He likes X because it’s closest to a swastika without being one. Extras would just be redundant.
Better double down and buy xideo.com as well
Should get Vin as the spokesman and call it xXxvideo.
Guys, I think he’s just trolling humanity. If he’s actually trolling, I think he earned my respect. He’d be the biggest troll humanity has and will ever know. Like, the cheer magnitude, the execution… damn.
Nope he is just a rich spoiled manchild on cocaine.
Damn, sarcasm is hard.
No troll ever deserved respect for trolling. And I say that as someone who occasionally engages in innocent trolling.
My theory is he’s pulling a zero requiem. He watches anime, so he’s probably watched code geas - it’s a very popular futuristic anime after all
First he became the symbol of the useful billionaire, the Tony Stark guy who’s going to save humanity, because he’s a futurist with the power of money. He learns everything about his companies the way a kid learns every stat about their model car, and actually does weirdly good as a hype man. He gives off the awkwardness of an engineer
After he meets Trump in the white house, he realizes how close we are to the brink. The fact that billionaires own all our media has led to existential danger, where truth doesn’t matter and money speaks
So, there’s a plan for a group of individuals to buy Twitter. There’s text logs of this - he was invited into a group planning to buy it together for the good of humanity, but it took all of 5 minutes for them to start carving holes in the ideology, so he backs out.
He then announced the intention to buy, trapping him in a situation where he was forced to go through with it… He struggled a bit, but not that hard really
So then comes the plan. He takes over, and every two weeks or so, he makes an impulsive decision showing zero understanding of the company. One idiotic decision at a time, spread out long enough to remind people “I’m still here, and I’m still ruining a major platform for public discourse!”
People start to realize he’s actually kind of dumb and pretty racist… Even the fanboys are getting quieter and quieter in defending him. It’s becoming public knowledge he isn’t a Tesla or spaceX founder, he came in as an investor when they already had a plan
He’s burning up half his fortune in an effort to show us all what a billionaire is. He’s not a businessman, he went to college to learn programming but doesn’t understand the basics of software, he’s hated by pretty much everyone in his personal life, and every company he’s tried to build from scratch has been a disaster. He lies constantly, in ways that will eventually come to light.
This guy was able to buy Twitter, just because he invested in a company that bought and sold PayPal (after kicking him out for being unbearable). He’s showing us all that billionaires are an existential danger to mankind, even the “good” ones.
Or, maybe he’s just having a midlife crisis and has a compulsive need for attention. One of the two.
He’s gunna be gutted when he finds out xvideos is already taken.
Time to spread the news that X is rebranding to xvideos
Easy, just call it xxvideos.
Throw a third one in there to show you mean business: xxxvideos.com
If X platform is pivoting towards video’s, shouldn’t XVideos sue X for copyright infringement, like Mr Beasts’s Deez Nuts being to close to another brand’s Dee’s Nuts. Even if they are not the same nor similar product but the fact that there is confusion such as have you seen the X video (Elon site video) vs Xvideo ( +18).
Trademark, not copyright.
Sorry not well versed in the technicalities but yes then, trademark violation.
The law says you have to show them your genitals now.
It’s an odd law.
Dammit, but my parents did not raise me to be a criminal. Now Elon, hope you are ready to see my ginormous 1,5inch monster
“What if we ignored what made our platform successful and instead tried to force our product into a already crowded market?” Elon Musk, Tech genius
Look how well that’s going for Disney
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So higher gross profit but lower net income from last year which is far lower than their net income from 2019 and their highest in 2018.
They’ve produced ~4 flops last year that cost them almost $1 billion, their stock price hit a 9 year low last year at below $84, Disney + has been operating at a loss since it started. Universal Studios overtook them with box office revenue last year.
Unless I’m interpreting that incorrectly it would seem that they aren’t doing too well. Correct me if I’m wrong.
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Lol, twitter was brilliant when it was 144 character text messages. Then it got ruined by adding photos. Now it is going the rest of the way down the tubes by becoming becoming video first. Ugh.
Oh yea back when it needed that limit because the whole point was to text it over SMS and you could post with any SMS capable phone lol
That was fun and unique, now it’s just…boring? Just another social media site, it’s only defining thing is it’s (declining) size and reach
SMS was the original reason, but the side effect of forcing people to condense their thoughts into a couple sentences was pretty wonderful. Especially for an open ended community where anyone can talk about anything.
I disagree with you simply because brevity is nice but not at the expense of nuance. Having to try to follow a string of tweets because one simply can’t suffice is awful.
I don’t understand the difficulty, the series of tweets are all replies to the previous tweet in the chain. Where’s the difficulty?
Likewise I don’t understand the difficulty in reading more than 140 characters.
But I’ve never used Twitter so when I experience the platform it’s through screen caps of tweets. Instead of having paragraphs and cohesive formatting it reads like a programmer who writes code all in one line. Sure, it can be done and it can be read but it’s fucking awful that it isn’t formatted correctly so that it is more clear.
It’s formatted how you’d expect if you’ve a timeline on anything, most recent at the top though, right?
Thats not formatting. That’s like reading a book transcribed on post-it notes and calling it a format. It can be ordered, yes but I’m talking about paragraphs and complete sentences.
Wonderful in theory, but in practice it’s a dumpster fire. Quick, mainstreamm-acceptable takes are incentived, and nuanced, alternative viewpoints are nearly impossible.
If it were all for hobby stuff, it would be fine, but when this is how most people get their news, it’s not good.
Hey at least photos worked…
Video playback doesn’t work half the time, and the other half the time it insists on 140p playback and then freezes.
They’re doubling down on something they’ve been failing at for years.
Not to nitpick but I think the limit was 140?
And with this brilliant move they are going to increase bandwidth and storage expenses. There’s a reason why it’s so hard to compete with YouTube.
Yeah “let’s make it like youtube” what could go wrong.
It’s amazing watching a platform with no substantial competitor kill itself so badly. AltaVista was killed by Google, MySpace was killed by Facebook, Twitter is killed by the ramblings of the lunatic who bought it.
You seem to be taking pleasure in it, but the fact is this was the plan from the moment he was locked into the purchase. Buy the business, run it into the ground, destroy the platform that people use to organise on. On the way down, try a bunch of shady shit and see what they can get away with - this will be the new standard for any platform that comes next.
Of course let’s take a platform that barely holds itself together to show just text and let’s pivot it to be the most technical demanding and expensive kind of service. It will work fine, I’m sure.
The only thing worse than its video player are the literal nazis on the site, has he tried watching video there? To call it dogshit would be an insult to dogshit, which can presumably be useful as fertilizer.
It’s funny how Tucker Carlson thought he could just do his show on Twitter and basically instantly lost his entire audience.
No no no you’ve got it all wrong:
The Nazis are supposed to be a feature of the platform.
Free speech
*free speech if Elon agrees with you
Paradox of tolerance and all that. You want a tolerant site? Can’t allow Nazis.
Secondly, there was a wave of banning of leftists and journalists recently, it’s very much only free speech for the right there.
The paradox of tolerance is a gross misunderstanding of the concept of tolerance
You tolerate your gay coworker - you treat them like a coworker. If any of your coworkers make inappropriate sexual comments or unwanted advances, that’s not okay. You respond appropriately, such as expressing your discomfort to them or going to hr or the police. There’s no conflict
You tolerate racists - so long as they stay within the social contract, they’re allowed to hold whatever they want in their hearts.
But if they violate the social contract, such as by saying racist things, you respond appropriately.
If someone believes Nazi ideas deep down, you tolerate them. If Nazis want to organize, spread their ideals, or do Nazi things, you respond appropriately.
It’s that simple.
The microblogging platform that once limited posts to 140 characters is now a “video-first” platform?
If Twitter’s a video-first platform, then Twitch is a text-first platform.
Just like that and with way fewer engineers somehow.
I don’t see a problem as long as the videos are capped at 140 characters
How Elon deals with advertising complaints: “Go advertise someplace else.”
Advertisers:
I thought Xitter was going to be a bank! Honestly, who can follow the mentally-ill, cocaine-fueled ramblings of this man-baby?
Lmao, he doesn’t have the bandwidth capacity to handle videos
Neither does his platform…
Nothing a little random plug swapping can’t fix!
My internal cable management goblin just had an aneurysm.
Nor the cash to increase the bandwidth capacity to do so.
Omg that’s a significant change in spend. Holy shit, there’s no way he can handle that. My boy scaled up twitch at the beginning. The amount of work, talent, etc …
Buffoon
Seems accurate.
I haven’t been keeping up with the changes to X but I checked out their videos site (xvideos, I presume) and it seems like it’s mostly porn with the occasional Tesla shareholder meeting keynote.
The keynotes seem a bit incongruous and I could do without them. Otherwise, it doesn’t seem like it’s gone too far downhill.
If X is becoming a video site, Xvideos should absolutely sue them for infringement on their name.
As a porn site they could maybe go toe to toe with the now much diminished twixxer
Has anyone made any piece of technology that could block Elon Musk news? I understand he is currently ruining the world at full speed, but for fuck’s sake, some of us don’t think this is tech news worthy and it’s frankly annoying. He makes it to every paper, then to every news forum. Yuck. Enough Musk spam… you are only doing him favors, even when the news is bad. There is no such thing as bad publicity.
I’ve seen a Firefox plugin called block the rich… I guess it wouldn’t fly if they called it block Elon
Not used it so don’t know if it’s any good
Will try now and report back!
Edit: it’s good. It blurs out text. Sadly not images!
It blocks these:
Block List
- Steve Ballmer
- Jeff Bezos
- Michael Bloomberg
- Sergey Brin
- Warren Buffett
- Larry Ellison
- Bill Gates
- Kanye “Ye” West
- Elon Musk
- Larry Page
- Donald Trump
- Mark Zuckerberg
Immediate observation: really cool, also blocks comments about Elon Musk (including my own lol) Sadly doesn’t block images
Does it block the word “Musk”? Is it case-sensitive? Honestly curious, especially since some of these last names can refer to either the person or a noun.
It does not block “Musk” or “Elon” when they aren’t in the same sentence It seems to block “musk” or “elon” or “elon musk” in lowercase.
One problem I noticed is that it slows down the loading of other pages, like Protonmail via the browser, so I had to disable it for some web pages. I don’t think you can individually disable it for certain pages though, so I’d have to turn it on/off.
One awesome feature that I’d like to see them ad is allowing custom names. I don’t only dislike Elon Musk, but also Taylor Swift and all the other rich people who make it into my news and my brain every single day on every single news outlet… If it’s not about world economy, there really isn’t a reason why Taylor Swift would be on Reuters. There is no reason at all for Elon Musk to be on the news, and when the news is about the lives he ruined, they should put a picture of THEM up, not of his shitty face.
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Yeah thats a great way to stay up to date with technology, just pretend they dont exist!
What ever would we do without updates on technological marvels such as:
- Fraudulent car
- Fraudulent train
- Low-poly cosplay truck
- Animal abuse brain microchip
- Kepler syndrome ISP
- Self-destructing rocket to mars
- Social media for Nazis?
The car is fine, and honestly the software is too, it’s the label that’s the problem. It’s like if Tesla had invented the first really good cough medicine but named it “Death Cure Resurrection Elixir (and cough preventative)” and they have this mustache twirling clown villain selling it.
I don’t blame anyone for completely disregarding it as fraud.
Well sure it wouldn’t be fraud if you simply don’t lie about what the car does
You forgot the /s!
I think if you blocked the person who posted this you’d see a big reduction. It’s usually the same account posting Musk news.
Very good tip, thank you, stranger.
The solution lies between the monitor and to left mouse button.
You realize that you are in a technology news section of Lemmy, right? This dude influences technology.
Does he though? Seems like it’s mostly him failing at business.
Anyway, the news coverage of him is unbalanced because it’s his plan to be on the news constantly and forever.
Well no, I think bad publicity is a thing, with current cancel culture for saying the wrong things, it can ruin your career. Also pedo allegations do hit hard.
If this was the case, Musk’s career would have been over.
Instead this publicity fuels him and his wasteful endeavors.
Your career can only be ruined if you rely on other people to fund your career. He has enough money (and loans and solvent businesses he hasn’t decided to tank yet) independently to keep going when others would have had to pack up.
You think any other non-billionaire could weather the absolute drain of most advertisers leaving Twitter?
Your career can’t be easily ruined if you shit gold.
In a fair world, Musk would be rotting in some sewer.
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