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   AJ Sadauskas (ajsadauskas@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 19:25:10 JST AJ Sadauskas

   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

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     ElWollito :verified_breze: (elwollito@muenchen.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 19:35:41 JST ElWollito :verified_breze:

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     @ajsadauskas @technology from Y to X, thats just a logical step

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     Hannibal (hannibal_@theblower.au)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 20:27:32 JST Hannibal

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     @ajsadauskas @technology I know a great name they can use: Compuserve.

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     Jon Payne Sr (lockpro@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 20:27:43 JST Jon Payne Sr

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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.

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     Clément VILLISEK (clement@ck.villisek.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 20:28:38 JST Clément VILLISEK

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     @ajsadauskas@aus.social @technology@beehaw.org for photos, Flickr also fits: it is owned by Yahoo since 2005

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     sneedy maccreedy (crumbleneedy@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 21:27:22 JST sneedy maccreedy

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     @ajsadauskas apart from the awfulness of thinking he can turn 'x' into an american wechat, the only reason for spending $44B on a social media platform for trying to do exactly that is to buy its brand and audience, but he's destroyed the brand and driven most of the audience away, turning it into a rightwing cesspool with a shiteful ux. astonishing.

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     Cefr (cefr@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 07:14:13 JST Cefr

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     @ajsadauskas @technology Amazing that his vision for the future is just being a "dude with a website". Someone putting WordPress, PHPbb, TinyWebGallery, and Elgg on a expensive colocated server and simply branding all of them as his. Visit the xBlog, talk on xBoards, shoot some xPics and use X for social media.

     Don't even need any vision or motto: "Whatever you do, do it on X, not some other lame and inferior place I don't run." It was a stupid plan then, and it's stupid now. Countless Web 2.0 dudes had the same plan, and it always fell apart when it became "only my friends are here. How the heck do I monetize this without looking like an ass?"

     What makes it dangerous is involving other people's money; the banking crap is still his end goal. (Could care less about sub fees, that’s caveat emptor. But checking and savings accounts when something goes wrong ruins people’s lives.)