Elon Musk

I don't particularly care for Signal (it's a pretty bare-bones messaging app) but certain people in my life won't use anything but so I'm stuck if I wanna communicate with them

Anyway I thought Telegram was the most active messaging app for right wing extremists. I’ve never tried that one.

and I assume people are just kidding w/stuff like "white nationalists use it" cuz that's like objecting to sending packages in the mail because of the unabomber

― rob, Wednesday, October 19, 2022 1:06 PM bookmarkflaglink

I wasn't saying that as an objection, just pointing out it does have a wide reach. might even tell my team to move to it, but i haven't tried it yet.

I just use the regular text messaging app for group chats

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yeah I mean I first heard about it from (leftist) activists, so it definitely has a rep as a political tool. I'm just confused why people bring up the (possibly false) far-right association but no one seems to mention, e.g., Whatsapp being implicated in actual genocide

I do sympathize with being compelled to use a partic app just to chat, as I have friends who only contact me through Instagram DMs and I hate it

i mean i'd be a massive hypocrite to call out Signal for that when I use FB of all things, lol.

WhatsApp has also been used to share larger vids w/ me. friends sent me a vid showing me how to give their cat insulin injections

didn't stop the cat from scratching me anyway I blame Whatsapp for that

there's a subreddit for that? r/catscratchinsulinvideos (not really)!

All of these apps will be subsumed into X.

there's a subreddit for that? r/catscratchinsulinvideos (not really)!

― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, October 19, 2022 6:07 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Worst social media platform thread is over there >>>>>> (((to the FAR RIGHT)))

Actually the worst is the nasty dysfunctional feedback loop of Reddit and Youtube.

Honestly, Signal is barebones and I don’t understand why anyone would need anything else from a text messaging app— that I cannot make Signal the default messaging app on my phone is the thing about my phone that pisses me off the most. I hate the way iMessage or whatever looks

I think if everybody you know is using Apple stuff, "Messages" is about as good as Signal: It's supposedly end-to-end encrypted. I've used a chat program to talk to friends going back to ICQ (followed by AIM -> Yahoo messenger -> Facebook messenger -> messages/SMS -> Google Hangouts/Talk -> Signal. Out of all of those apps, Signal and Messages made me feel the most confident that my conversations were private. I do not "have anything to hide" or do anything illegal, but I don't like the feeling of wondering if I should self-censor in a supposedly private conversation - whether it's from a fear of a joke being misconstrued or Google's machine learning picking up keywords to sell to marketers for targeted advertising, I like my conversations private and I'm happy to pay for that service.

Like is the prez has to have some one send him the nuclear codes he should not use whatsapp

It seems like human bahavior is already the bigger problem - leave it to IT people think better software fixes everything -
https://blog.avast.com/uber-hack

Messages is great if everyone is on iPhone and not everyone is already on WhatsApp or local equivalent. The only social groups where that’s true are in the upper end of the income distribution in North America. It’s just not a situation that happens much outside that.

I have only known one person in my life to use WHatsApp - it reminds me of the ORkut situation - only a Brazilian station?
https://applemagazine.com/is-the-long-extinct-social-network-orkut-on-the-verge-of-a-comeback/52177

caek otm

WhatsApp is cheaper for people than regular texting in a lot of places where you pay per text. Also cheaper if you text people with international numbers.

WhatsApp is the de facto choice pretty much everywhere other than the US (and maybe Canada?) afaict

world where I'm forced to get a fucking iPhone to communicate with friends and family sounds just great, fantastic idea there

only commies use whatsapp - USA Boldbloods use one of teh three Musk-eteers apps ! This is Reagan's future

"world where I'm forced to get a fucking iPhone to communicate with friends and family sounds just great, fantastic idea there"

iPhone really gouges people on price if you ask me - but isnt it odd that Beyonce and me could use the same phone - were is the million-dollar Ferrari phone

WhatsApp is the de facto choice pretty much everywhere other than the US (and maybe Canada?) afaict

― mh, Thursday, October 20, 2022 10:23 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah in india there are cheap phone plans that just have whatsapp instead of data, for some people it is the internet

^ brazil's the same

I had to use it to coordinate my pickups and dropoffs during my office visit in the Philippines.

coke?

lol no rides to and from the office

WhatsApp is the de facto choice pretty much everywhere other than the US (and maybe Canada?) afaict

― mh, Thursday, October 20, 2022 10:23 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

not korea (kakao https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/world/asia/korea-kakao-ceo.html is wild), japan (line), eastern europe and one girl from park slope i went on a tinder date with in 2013 (viber) and china (wechat).

It figures that an Elon Musk thread has turned into a discussion of messaging apps.

it's all leading towards X, everything leads towards X

It's not a crossroads, it's a singularity.

He should buy goatse.cx

just two edgelords living in the moment pic.twitter.com/iouBxhGnkI

— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) October 20, 2022

he pay too much lol

Social media market caps (2021 peak to today)

Snap $131B → $14B
Meta $1.07T→ $353B
Twitter $61B → $40B
Pinterest $56B → $15B

— Troy Osinoff 🕺 (@yo) October 20, 2022

I saw someone say it's like announcing you want to buy a car, changing your mind, changing your mind again, then crashing the car, then saying you still want to buy it.

aside from whatever damage he mightve done to the company his timing was just terrible, making an offer right in the middle of a gigantic crash of the sector, twitter would prob be trading at a third of what hes paying

Seems like his only hope now is to make enough Putin-friendly noises on Twitter to provoke a national security review that will bar him from going through with the purchase.

https://i.imgur.com/fMQcZDW.png

post article said the deal is prob closing next week xp

SAN FRANCISCO - Elon Musk plans to lay off most of Twitter’s workforce if and when he becomes owner of the social media company, according to a report Thursday by The Washington Post.

Musk has told prospective investors in his Twitter purchase that he plans to cut nearly 75% of Twitter’s employee base of 7,500 workers, leaving the company with a skeleton crew, according to the report...

Gonna be awful lonely in the cafeteria.

I hope the actual citizens of the TL rise up and takes the building, that's what Musk and Twitter deserve afaic.

Who will be the last person to tweet, and what conspiracy theory will they be pushing?

and who will own the NFT for that tweet?

who taught him to talk like this

“Government is simply the biggest corporation, with the sole monopoly on violence.” — @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/1SqS8qMs3F

— Pranay Pathole (@PPathole) October 15, 2022

the state's monopoly on violence should rightfully be his because he could discipline & extract value from workers more effectively without government regulation, better than a government itself can? (capital allocation as the financial abstraction of this?)

the antistatism is of course totally opportunistic and hypocritical and feels like something between a pose and a threat

feel like this might be evidence of exposure to anarcho capitalism, which which would stand to reason i guess what with being into crypto

feel like thiel and andreessen probably also often talk this way, and with a somewhat firmer intellectual grounding?

i mean i don't think they're advanced political thinkers or anything but musk by comparison is a mid stoner dunce with far too much time and money on his hands

sub-mid in fact

^^^speaking truth to power here

how long until the helicopter memes or has he gone there already

feel like Twitter would be better if in addition to followers, it gave a complete list of people that also hate you. but that would probably just egg Elon Musk on.

this feels more like him intentionally trying to say something that winds up being a decades-enduring quote and failing miserably.