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- hakendran@feddit.de
- cross-posted to:
- hakendran@feddit.de
X is rolling out audio and video calling features that nobody asked for.
This move is a part of the plan to transform the platform into an “everything app” like WeChat, following Elon Musk’s ambition.
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A great opportunity to mention Signal (signal.org) - a free, encrypted text, voice, and videochat app, developed by a foundation dedicated to free and encrypted communication. Let’s flood xitter posts with FOSS options, for fun and to prevent xitler’s profits.
Let’s flood xitter posts with FOSS options
You’d have to have a Xitter account first. Last time I tried to make one I got fed up after like the 7th Captcha of 20.
Ah, but I meant xitter posts on the fediverse.
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Yeah, get ready to get spam calls through X if you still have it installed.
Elon has to get people to buy the Tesla extended warranties somehow.
and Element. Calls on these platforms are end-to-end encrypted, and since they are decentralized, there are no central servers to save or analyze our calls
You’re confusing centralized servers with no servers. Element runs on Matrix, and (much like WhatsApp) while your actual message content is E2EE, all your message metadata is stored on the server you use and the one the other people you’re communicating with use.
If you want decentralized without metadata or phone numbers, you can use Session or SimpleX or any number of others
Downvote Musk spam.
The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle. Don’t be a useful idiot.
All news is not good news
I agree with you, but Musk operates on the “any publicity is good publicity” strategy.
Also, this isn’t even bad news. It’s just a bland update that some journalist thought would get him some hate clicks. In reality, it’s just keeping Musk and his businesses in the 24 hour news cycle.
Yeah I guess that’s fair. The rollout of the feature is notable but there’s no reason to really upvote it.
When the news is Musk fucking something up though, I’d argue it’s good to keep him in the news. Let the people see just how idiotic and childish billionaires are, and that they aren’t anything special.
Right, like Facebook did the same shit years ago and it’s unlikely the headline would have looked like this, if it got one at all lol, definitely just rage baiting.
I’m sure Elon’s server management methodology will produce a secure and reliable audiovisual communication system.
Surely Mr. “This is making my brain hurt” will do a great job setting up new network infrastructure and won’t cut any corners, understaff any important teams or try to rush the completion of work that should be carefully planned and executed.
The new X will be an everything app, yes.
The problem is it’ll have everything except users and advertisers. That second one wouldn’t be so bad, but I guarantee Xitter will lean hard into a subscription model when advertising really stops paying; they’re already testing it out with paid verification.
I really don’t get why he spent 44 billions just to turn Twitter into WeChat. He could have just spent 1 billion or less to develop one from scratch.
So he can coerce the existing user base into using it. If he did it from scratch no one would use it
Let’s not forget that Muskrat wanted to buy Twitter to shit down the kid that was tracking his private jet, then was forced to complete the transaction after he tried to weasel out of it.
He was trying to shame Twitter for deplatforming far-right extremists by swinging his dick around and then his lawyers informed him he could either lose billions on the purchase or billions on the lawsuit.
$22B of that 44 was money the Saudi Arabian government gave him. The idea was to trash twitter, make it unusable, and hopefully prevent another Arab Spring uprising.
I mean, if he could actually make Twitter into WeChat of the US, that’d be a great move (for him, not the rest of us). WeChat is everywhere in China. My employer has employees in China and
Chinese spywareWeChat is installed on company systems in China in order to conduct business. Something similarly ubiquitous in the US would be very profitable, and be able to hoover up insane amounts of data to use for selling targeted ads.Fortunately, instead of WeChat for the US, we got a master class in how to destroy a social media platform. And I doubt adding voice and video chat, with Creepy Uncle Elon listening in, is going to do much to save it.
To give the far right a voice.
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The “everything app” is still the stupidest idea.
I don’t want a single app that tries to do everything. Twitter should have stayed focused on its core microblogging roots. I don’t know anymore what it wants to be, more importantly, I have stopped caring.
X, doing everything! Poorly.
He can try all he wants but it won’t work. No one wants an everything app. The market in the west just isn’t the same.
It’s so funny he’s trying to copy WeChat. WeChat is just so far ahead of Twitter, by the time he adds one feature, he’s even further behind than he was before. WeChat is seriously an amazing app, and Twitter… isn’t…
Great. Who the fuck cares
Taking away circles and adding voice calling. Insane.
With this WeChat-Approach X will become for apps what Elon is for the world: A dysfunctional solution in need of a problem
Let me guess: this stuff will be really flaky if it works at all. Building a reliable platform for video calling isn’t exactly trivial.
Considering they can’t even handle user authentication properly, the idea that they can manage a reliable audio/video infrastructure is laughable.
I mean how many users would use this? It’s not that hard to maintain infrastructure that can hold 5-6 concurrent calls
Considering also how Elon Musk has torn apart the infrastructure of the thing formerly known as Twitter, they will probably have to do it peer to peer without servers too. 😋
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I wonder if they’ll just use WebRTC and use peer-to-peer. Which is you know, revolutionary… cough
