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Miss the old Twitter when I saw the stupid X animation. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

He is such a fuckin loser.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years 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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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

fire everyone + break everything = the everything app

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

The everything appo ? Even whore aervice ?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Reminds me of the old OS X Leopard welcome animation.

https://youtu.be/G9oIlXuaa3s?si=2wosEwp-_iZS3I7V

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Can you really do everything with this app, or is it basically like Twitter?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't want to do everything with this app or any app. An everything app means monopoly and manipulation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It also means an eventual failure

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Reminds me on the 2000 https://www.zombo.com/ joke

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

At the moment it's just reskinned twitter, eventually he wants to turn it into Facebook with chat, calls, payments and such I guess.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Not even reskinned, just with a stupid new logo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah if this is his plan it's clear he hasn't thought for a second about why 99% of the world would even want to replace their other apps with this mess, and that would been true even if he never gave anyone reason to hate him personally, which he's done in spades.

It's pathetic how obvious it is that it will fail hard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It's gonna be like yahoo.com circa 2012. Stocks, banks, messaging, email, news etc.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

But it is not the everything app?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

As ever, "we're going to do everything" neatly translates in to "we're going to do everything poorly".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

It will come with 3 seashells.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hate to be stupid but where's the animation?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I took a screenshot from the animation. If you want to see the complete version of this stupid animation: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1694256985233846492?s=20

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Looks like shit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

OK, I would say "thanks" normally but that doesn't seem to quite fit. :P

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Lmao

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