“If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”
Well that sounds terrifying!
“If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”
Well that sounds terrifying!
I suppose this doesn’t feel weird to anyone who lives in China. They have a Whatsapp -clone called Wechat, and it’s pretty much exactly what Musk wants X to be able to be.
Which indeed should scare you.
WeChat’s API is way more accessible than the nightmare X is, with its current state there’s no way to reach that massive adoption. I’d argue that even Telegram has a higher chance than X for such a superapp position given the steps they’ve taken.
I live in Russia, have used VK before Telegram became a thing, and the thought of a company owned by Durov with that much power scares me shitless.
I can’t even describe that feeling, emotionally it’s something similar to combination of Saint-Petersburg (I hate that city), Russian-speaking Web (like 4chan gone respectable) and the more elitist layer of Russian university youth (just somehow reptilian and unpleasant and untrustworthy, while not being quite as bright as they themselves may think).
I mean, reading what people say about TG’s protocol may give you some idea as to why TG is bad. Also its desktop client source is open, looking at that is also, eh, an unpleasant experience.
Elon has explicitly said he wanted twitter to become wechat.
Will that include the social credit score?
Only for people that are against free speech like those that disagree with him.