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meiko60 ( meiko60@lemmy.sdf.org )  to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3年前

Leak: Elon Musk said he wants X to be a dating app, too, in an all-hands meeting on the anniversary of his Twitter takeover

www.businessinsider.com

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Leak: Elon Musk said he wants X to be a dating app, too, in an all-hands meeting on the anniversary of his Twitter takeover

www.businessinsider.com

meiko60 ( meiko60@lemmy.sdf.org )  to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3年前
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In a video meeting with staff on the anniversary of Musk's Twitter takeover, the billionaire proposed even more vague ideas of what X will become.
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    You’re telling me I can meet a potential partner, have video calls with them, get scammed out of money, and tweet about how sad I am, all from the same platform? Sign me up.

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      Don’t forget about all the right-wing fascist propaganda

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    It’s a bank! It’s a dating app! It’s a video hosting service, a town square, a shopping mall, a floor wax AND a dessert topping! Why go anywhere else? Just stare at the middle of the big shiny X until it makes sense!

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    I already have an everything app where I can date, do banking, and even use Twitter. It’s called Firefox.

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    Elon Musk running a dating app sounds like the biggest dumpster fire in human history.

    You know what, actually, go Elon! I wanna see the trainwreck play out.

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    Elon Musk’s entire career since his PayPal days has been throwing one horrifyingly bad idea after another to his employees for them to figure out a way to bring into reality, then take credit for all of his employees’ work once they somehow realize these idea in order to shamelessly market himself as a tech genius, a “real life Tony Stark”, to make his employees realize even more bad ideas. Until his management of Twitter exposed him.

    Can’t wait to see what kind of trainwreck a dating app designed by a misogynistic thrice-divorced deadbeat manchild would look like.

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      I loathe the guy but I really think you’re doing him a disservice. It is HARD to scale businesses while maintaining an environment of iteration and preventing things getting moribund. And while I’d never work for him on work-life balance grounds, you can at least not fault him for living the kind of environment he wanted to create, with absolute dedication to the task.

      And honestly, how many CEOs do you know who can walk the grounds of his business and tell you exactly what each component does and why? While it may not be his idea, that’s still a lot of knowledge to hold in your head.

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        Elon failed at scaling businesses. He lucked out at the start, and people think he’s a genius due to survivorship bias, but tesla is going down the drain, even if it had an extremely good position in the market. SpaceX is doing alright I suppose, but didn’t achieve many of the ambitious goals Elon said would happen, like the mars stuff, if not cancelled, then very delayed. The boring Company is a failure. Twitter is a failure. Solar roofs were a failure. Neuralink is a failure.

        Employees talk about how they constantly have to tip-toe around him, and basically psychologically manipulate him to do the right thing. I think SpaceX just has really good managers that manage not the employees, but Elon himself. Whenever he gets full reign in a company, it falls apart.

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          Exactly so. The successful companies he’s involved in are largely successful despite him, not because of him

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      I mean the bar is pretty low right now. Tinder/matchgroup basically owns the market. I used the Facebook dating app for a bit and honestly, it ended up being more worthwhile than tinder.

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        I think Facebook dating works better because you get a much more complete, natural profile of a person over a long period of time compared to Tinder and friends. Twitter… is not that.

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    We get it Elon, your X has left you.

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    blind date app since everyone will be wearing white hoods

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    My God, is everything related to Musk worth reporting? What’s next, “Breaking news, Musk got out of bed today!” Jesus Christ

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    Wait, in the last thread it was a bank

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    Awesome! I always wanted to date a nazi. Gimme those white supremacy bitches!

    Changes profile pic to confederate flag

    Get ready to smash some puss!

    s/ and satire, obviously…

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    “Hey, baby, Elon Musk says we should fuck.”

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      if he somehow turned it into a legitimized escort service, that would be actually useful to society, other than that he would be the one running it so it would be corrupt af and detrimental to society.

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