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[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

And it’s all run by the guy who can’t even handle running twitter when it’s just a social media website. But sure, yeah, if they throw more functions on top of 280 text character posts, with a fraction of the people that ran twitter, I’m sure it’ll be even easier to manage.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lol, he wants it to be wechat but forgets that everyone uses it because its a government sanctioned monopoly.

No one wants a dating/chat/payment/microbloging/uber app.

Link your ride data to your dating profile? What could go wrong you fucking donkey.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Well it's no secret exactly that he's kinda infatuated with China's methods.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wasn't there a conservative dating app which no women wanted to be on?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most conservatives I've met, in Alberta, Canada, have giant ball-sacks hanging off their trucks... Somehow I don't think they are looking for women in the first place... Or they are lying to themselves.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PSA: if your truck didn't come with balls, and you add balls to it, you've done gender affirming treatment.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I'm getting some rainbow truck nuts and a car bra for my truck. I like to keep folks guessing.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Now I want to watch glass onion again.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

We get it Elon, your X has left you.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So its a bank with video calling where you can also get laid and read right wing misinformation, that is a lot of checked boxes

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

No. It’s a platform, which can load custom HTML-ish apps, like WeChat (very successful in being a platform) or Telegram (not very successful yet at being a platform).

All Spacebaby is saying is “I have an audience, let’s address it with everything and charge an access fee for companies accessing it”. I very much doubt he sees Twitter creating all these things, just providing a platform that allows others to do so while seeking rent.

He’s imagining the sort of closed off internet like what you see in China. I’m sure the ultimate purpose is that he can censor anyone calling him a Spacebaby. What a Spacebaby!

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Can we just pause and think on that? A dating app named X doesn't exactly ring with success.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

blind date app since everyone will be wearing white hoods

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Stop giving this asshole headlines, please.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Elon’s solution to the cyber harassment problem - let’s just make it part of product? What a moron

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, in the last thread it was a bank

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

He probably wants it to become “the internet”. He likely thinks he can do search better than Google, shopping better than Amazon, social better than Facebook, etc.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“X” as a dating app sounds like converting from a pornhub to an escort service.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn’t Facebook try that for a while too?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, they pretty much cloned tinder. It wasn't great.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Having to swipe left on family members would make it a little different and weird.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Is he throwing darts at a concept map??

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

it's every app in existence!! That means it will be worth every other app x 10!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

No, he always wanted it to be wechat but misses the fact that its basically required for Chinese citizens to use.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

God no, they want to breed

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I can hear clams snapping themselves shut across the planet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine what’s going through those poor software engineer's minds when this fuck stick opens his mouth.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Who’s upvoting this dross

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Leak: Elon Musk said he wants X to be a gaming app, too...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Great, would really love to get a preventable STD from a right wing anti-vaxxer

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Porn site when? They got the name down for it already. Just get on with it man.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Did it also want to be a clown car?

If so, good job!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Literally who gives a shit about Twitter at this point.

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