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The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.

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[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 272 points 11 months ago
[-] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 24 points 11 months ago

I love this meme format

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[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 227 points 11 months ago

So is he changing name again to XVideo?

[-] M500@lemmy.ml 60 points 11 months ago

Xvideo? I never heard of that before um…

[-] PinkPanther@sh.itjust.works 30 points 11 months ago

I'm going to purchase xvideos.com right now!

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 23 points 11 months ago

Too late, some mastermind from the Czech Republic already did it in '98

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[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 24 points 11 months ago

Should get Vin as the spokesman and call it xXxvideo.

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[-] Borkingheck@lemmy.world 145 points 11 months ago

He's gunna be gutted when he finds out xvideos is already taken.

[-] chriscz@iusearchlinux.fyi 26 points 11 months ago

Time to spread the news that X is rebranding to xvideos

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[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 126 points 11 months ago

"What if we ignored what made our platform successful and instead tried to force our product into a already crowded market?" Elon Musk, Tech genius

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[-] solrize@lemmy.world 101 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Lol, twitter was brilliant when it was 144 character text messages. Then it got ruined by adding photos. Now it is going the rest of the way down the tubes by becoming becoming video first. Ugh.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 65 points 11 months ago

Oh yea back when it needed that limit because the whole point was to text it over SMS and you could post with any SMS capable phone lol

That was fun and unique, now it's just...boring? Just another social media site, it's only defining thing is it's (declining) size and reach

[-] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago

SMS was the original reason, but the side effect of forcing people to condense their thoughts into a couple sentences was pretty wonderful. Especially for an open ended community where anyone can talk about anything.

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[-] Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago

Hey at least photos worked....

Video playback doesn't work half the time, and the other half the time it insists on 140p playback and then freezes.

They're doubling down on something they've been failing at for years.

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[-] frezik@midwest.social 87 points 11 months ago

It's amazing watching a platform with no substantial competitor kill itself so badly. AltaVista was killed by Google, MySpace was killed by Facebook, Twitter is killed by the ramblings of the lunatic who bought it.

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[-] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 57 points 11 months ago

Of course let's take a platform that barely holds itself together to show just text and let's pivot it to be the most technical demanding and expensive kind of service. It will work fine, I'm sure.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago

The only thing worse than its video player are the literal nazis on the site, has he tried watching video there? To call it dogshit would be an insult to dogshit, which can presumably be useful as fertilizer.

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[-] MondayToFriday@lemmy.ca 47 points 11 months ago

The microblogging platform that once limited posts to 140 characters is now a "video-first" platform?

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[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 44 points 11 months ago

How Elon deals with advertising complaints: "Go advertise someplace else."

Advertisers:

[-] Coach@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago

I thought Xitter was going to be a bank! Honestly, who can follow the mentally-ill, cocaine-fueled ramblings of this man-baby?

[-] _sideffect@lemmy.world 37 points 11 months ago

Lmao, he doesn't have the bandwidth capacity to handle videos

[-] JdW@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

Neither does his platform...

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[-] Bleach7297@lemmy.ca 32 points 11 months ago

I haven't been keeping up with the changes to X but I checked out their videos site (xvideos, I presume) and it seems like it's mostly porn with the occasional Tesla shareholder meeting keynote.

The keynotes seem a bit incongruous and I could do without them. Otherwise, it doesn't seem like it's gone too far downhill.

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago
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[-] snek@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Has anyone made any piece of technology that could block Elon Musk news? I understand he is currently ruining the world at full speed, but for fuck's sake, some of us don't think this is tech news worthy and it's frankly annoying. He makes it to every paper, then to every news forum. Yuck. Enough Musk spam... you are only doing him favors, even when the news is bad. There is no such thing as bad publicity.

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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 28 points 11 months ago

Meta already did the "pivot to video" scam. I doubt most media outlets are going to fall for it again.

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[-] kokesh@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

I think next week it should be a nazi dating site.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago
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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

"X" the thing you click to close videos you don't like or are done with.

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[-] IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Xitter is running out of feet to shoot itself in.

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[-] notannpc@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

I claim that I am now a millionaire.

Doesn’t make it true though…

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[-] Clbull@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If he built X.com as a video sharing site to rival YouTube instead of rebranding Twitter and turning it into a Nazi bar, I think people would have a more favourable view of him.

Musk can have good ideas but he's being blinded by his own hubris.

[-] decisivelyhoodnoises@sh.itjust.works 33 points 11 months ago

Where exactly was the good idea?

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago

Being born rich is a pretty good idea.

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[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 25 points 11 months ago

Musk can have ~~good~~ ideas but he’s ~~being blinded by his own hubris~~ an idiot.

Fixed

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 25 points 11 months ago

I haven't visit twitter/X for a while. A "video-first platform" typically supports live streams, captions/subtitles and 4k videos. Does X supports these?

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[-] scytale@lemm.ee 24 points 11 months ago

Twitter videos don’t even load half the time on mobile browsers.

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Do it for the ~~Vine~~ X. Just doesn't have the same ring to it. (Or a different ring cough.)

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago

Man, I still can't believe Twitter had Vine and killed it, especially given everything that has followed

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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 22 points 11 months ago

Musk is to Zuckerberg what Donald Trump is to Sheldon Adelson. They’re in the same business, but one is a ruthless, highly-adapted predator owning the industry and making a killing, while the other is a large adult failson frittering away his inheritance cosplaying as the other guy and managing to go bankrupt running a casino.

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[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Do it. I haven't seen this play out in the recent past, and I'm sure moving from text content to video content to chase advertising has never gone wrong for anyone ever.

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[-] ExLisper@linux.community 20 points 11 months ago

So can we now stop embedding Twits in articles instead of simply including the pictures?

[-] paf0@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

I suppose that's better than being a 'white supremacists first platform' but I bet they'll probably still do that too.

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[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 months ago

I can't wait for X to transition finally into "no longer existing"

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[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

In a few more months, it will turn into world's most serious scientist's exchange, and next year (if it's still not dead) it's going to evolve further into a platform for testing and comparing children's games of different cultures and hair colors.

[-] cmrn@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

The only videos that show up on my Twitter are literal war crimes, gore, NFSW, NFSL… I’m sure being LiveLeak Jr is doing great things for bringing advertisers back.

[-] Elliott@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

I'm still not convinced this wasn't just an effort by Saudi Arabia to dismantle the platform.

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