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nutsack ,

looks like shit

Venomnik0 ,

X has finally formally announced X Pro, two days after TweetDeck users started noticing the new branding and paywall.

Shouldn’t this be illegal? Implementing a sudden paywall on a previously free feature without prior warning. LMAO

HKayn ,
@HKayn@dormi.zone avatar

It’s not illegal if it’s part of their Terms of Service, which we all agreed to.

Flaky ,
@Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

Bluesky already has a third-party client that can replicate TweetDeck well enough. Mastodon and Misskey also have a “deck” UI.

Rentlar ,

Still better than how that alien logo’d Lemmy clone handled third-party clients.

nothingcorporate ,

Social Champ + Mastodon FTW

scytale ,

We should call it XDeck.

poorsocialskills ,
@poorsocialskills@lemmy.ml avatar

People seem to think he’s trying to make X successful. That’s not the point at all. He’s trying to convert what was once a useful commons into a smoking hole full of trolls and conspiracy theories. There’s just no other reasonable way to look at his actions.

mibo80 ,

I’ve been saying this for awhile now. It’s the only reason he made that very public offer at the specific price he put out. He knew he couldn’t back out. He knew the line he was crossing so it wasn’t a spur of the moment purchase. He got Larry Ellison and a Saudi Investor involved. They didn’t all have the same crazy idea. These guys know they’re on the hook to the bank for whatever but between the 3 of them they’ll cover the losses and this big hub of rumor/news sharing will die. and they can stay mostly unharmed.

donut4ever ,

It feels like twitter is like a water tank that has a lot of holes and Elon is trying to put duct tape on those holes all at the same time to contain the water. Scrambling around not knowing what to do having only two hands and a million hole to patch with a tape that doesn’t even stick. Run that through your head 😂

ruk_n_rul , (edited )

I see Twitter as a ship too big to maneuver. Then one day it got bought and a new captain comes aboard. He deliberately breaks the hull here and there to make the ship lighter and more agile, and also fired half of the hands on deck. The ship’s taking on water faster now. He also painted over her name. Despite all this, the majority of souls on board would rather sink with the ship than jump overboard.

donut4ever ,

That’s good for a shorstory film to be honest. Lol

shoelace ,

More like he’s running around with a gun and shooting new holes into the water tank instead of trying to seal anything.

donut4ever ,

That actually sounds funny 😂

Munkisquisher ,

Shooting new holes in the water tank so the water doesn’t leak out of the existing holes as fast

Buffalox ,

Ha that’s a brilliant analogy, and I bet he concludes it’s partially working, he just needs to do more of the same.

ChrisLicht ,

And, he’s pissing and shitting in the tank, and inviting other pissers and shitters back to the tank.

Jaysyn ,
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

If you're still on Twitter, you're part of the problem.

strawberry ,
@strawberry@artemis.camp avatar

what the fuck was he thinking with the rebrand? not only did he throw all of the brand identity that twitter had, x. com and especially x premium don't exactly sound like social media sites if y'all get what im sayin

CIWS-30 ,

Makes me think of the Privateer / Elite style X spaceship games, but that's probably because of my personal bias towards games like that.

Everyone else would probably think Porn or the X-games first.

orca , (edited )
@orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts avatar

His goal is apparently to eventually make X an “everything” tool. It’s stupid and will flop.

dulce_3t_decorum_3st ,
@dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world avatar

If it doesn’t flop, humanity will.

mustardman ,

There is a non-zero chance X merges with Reddit based on Steve Huffman’s public swooning over Elon Musk vision.

ChaoticEntropy ,
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk avatar

He has all the money and capital in the world to force his dumb idea in to prominence.

mosiacmango ,

Just look at VR or the windows phone and you can see that money only keeps something in the conversation, it doesnt lead to adoption.

So sure, he can keep people talking by burning billions, but thats about it

Fafner ,
@Fafner@yiffit.net avatar

Good thing twitter is dead or this might have mattered.

synceDD ,
@synceDD@lemmy.world avatar

If the lemmy user says so lmao

yoz ,

What is it? Never used twitter

RheingoldRiver ,

It was a way to view multiple lists at once, your home feed, various accounts, hashtags, your mentions, notifications, DMs, etc. Super useful. I stopped using Twitter altogether when they updated it earlier this year and made it significantly clunkier UX + promised to make it paid.

new_guy ,

A better frontend, basically.

It guaranteed chronological timeline and multiple columns.

makyo ,

It was the only way to use Twitter for me. Custom feeds for lists etc, chronological, and all on one page. Such great information density.

I would have gladly paid to use it before the new ownership too. Then again the new update for it added a couple things I hate so that makes it easier to move on too.

Moonrise2473 ,

The only way to use Twitter for work

Basically now you have to choose between quitting or giving money to the biggest asshole on the planet

DarkUFO ,
@DarkUFO@lemmy.world avatar

I chose quit and moves to Mastodon and Lemmy. Been happier ever since.

Blizzard ,

Should be renamed to XD-eck.

Fantomas ,

Xflippin’eck

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

X, the social network formally known as Twitter, appears to be finally following through on its promise to make TweetDeck a paid service.

Many users on X, including social media consultant Matt Navarra, say that they’re seeing a sales page for X Premium (the subscription formerly Twitter Blue) when they try to load up TweetDeck, which is technically now called XPro.

A few of us at The Verge haven’t run into the block yet, but given how many people are saying that they can’t access XPro unless they pay, we’re guessing it’s only a matter of time.

It said at the time that the transition would happen “in 30 days,” so the company missed its own deadline by just a bit.

Under owner Elon Musk, X has tried to make X Premium a more enticing subscription with additions like longer posts, formatting, ad revenue sharing, and higher rankings in conversations and search — now, the company is hoping that access to XPro is worth paying for a blue checkmark.

TweetDeck was one of the most popular third party apps for accessing Twitter until the company acquired it in 2011.

I’m a bot and I’m open source!

there1snospoon ,

Can’t tell if formally is a typo or meant to imply that everyone still calls it Twitter outside Elons circlejerk bubble.

JackGreenEarth ,

It’s probably a typo, but I like it.

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