Elon wants X to clone WeChat. It will be hard.

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• LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why clone it when he can buy it for 3x the market price and then destroy it?

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s what he calls “building”.

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  • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just the cost of making a 69 420 joke.

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Probably would’ve made sense not to kill his user base before trying to build a product that requires a large user base to be useful.

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  • Diplomjodler@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s just what a small mind would think. Of course business genius knows better. What better way to build a globally respected brand than to turn your platform into a far right cesspool.

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  • roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Would've been fine if he was doing that while riding high off of VC funding. You can try to pivot to new features that way. He's riding on bank debt that needs to be serviced, however. That means he needs to be both profitable and somehow develop a service that will capture market share. It's not going to happen.

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    • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      he’ll force you to use the X app to hail a robo ride via subscription and manage your insurance risk modifier score and instruct your slavebots and throttle your electric VLF air conditioning and whatever

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    but you can’t see his business acumen without a business to grow see that’s why he had to kill shitter first

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• yiliu@informis.land ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  "Okay, step one: establish trust with users, developers, sellers and other tech companies.

  “Shit.”

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• cassetti@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Cool, I won't use any product Elno is attached to - I think most of us have learned that lesson

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know if that typo was deliberate but it’s the funniest way I’ve ever seen his name spelled so I’m going to use it from here on out.

    Based on how much I pissed his fans off by deliberately spelling it Telsa, I can only imagine they’ll love this one

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    • cassetti@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Totally intentional, it's become natural to spell it that way ;-)

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• awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ll never use it. So tired of hearing about Elon musk.

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• 77slevin@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  WeChat is forced / very much encouraged by the Chinese government for… reasons. No such entity will be doing the same for the dreaded X-app, so this is going to fail spectacularly.

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• quadropiss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Elon wants to make a super app in a market where nobody wants a super app. It will for sure go great!

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• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Here is an alternative Piped link(s): piped.video/watch?v=8G6RDzPadLQ

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

  I’m human, do not check me out

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  • CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thank you for making me laugh with your last line.

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• ieightpi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Are average people leaving Twitter/X? I know that lemmy and reddit users seem pretty over it but that might be an inaccurate sample pool.

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  • silverbax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I know that a large number of brands and news organizations have reported that their Twitter engagement has completely disappeared, which tells us far more than Twitter’s press releases ever would. Ita dead.

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• pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  hey i have that in my watch later

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• liontigerwings@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  i’ve never used WeChat, isn’t it just like every other messenger though? 

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  • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s pretty much the default social app in much of the southern hemisphere. Basically imagine Snapchat, Uber, your landlord’s rent payment site, and a bunch of other things all in one app. It’s crazy how much of the worlds population depends on it.

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    • silverbax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m not sure what app you are thinking of, but WeChat is used in China (Northern hemisphere) and was backed by the Chinese government in order to be established.

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  • Thoth19@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It has snapshot, venmo, Instagram, discord, Whatsapp whisper etc. I think it might also have tinder. It’s pretty much all of the things rolled into one.

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  • magic_lobster_party@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a bit of an everything app. You can use it for payments for example.

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  • imapuppetlookaway@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes and no. It’s backed by the Chinese government and pretty much mandatory for living in, working in China. For example, taxes are done with a WeChat mini-app, companies use only WeChat to communicate (email is rare now). During Covid, you could only get tested by using a WeChat mini-app to register, and no testing meant no life. You can’t cross into or out of China without using a Wechat mini-app to generate a qr code that they scan at the border. etc etc.

    It doesn’t do ride-hailing. Didi does that. But WeChat does just about everything else. Oh, and all similar non-Chinese apps are blocked.

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• Twink@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t know a single person who uses Twitter. Facebook was wildly popular and AFAIK still is. It makes sense for them to have comms. Twitter? Doesn’t seem too wise.

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• MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Am so happy world is waking up to what kind of a shithead Elon is. For the longest time it was annoying to see universal praise to a person who essentially knows nothing in depth but has read a wiki page here and there. To anyone in depth of any area of expertise he even marginally talked about knows just how clueless he is about pretty much everything. This wouldn’t have been such an issue if he just sat on the management board and kept his mouth shut while raking in the money, but no. That’s not possible for egomaniac of his caliber. If you ever need a good example just how out of his ass he’s talking about just remember the interview with Neuralink panel. There were dozen or so people there, all PhD holders, some even multiple PhDs. People with knowledge, skill and expertise… and Musk was the only one talking what was possible with Neuralink while others rolled their eyes with every claim.

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