| ▲ | est 2 days ago |
| That's precisely what Wechat is doing. Most chinese "mega apps" do this. Elon absolutely on his track to copy this important feature [1] The webview works as a traffic faucet. Elon can turn it on or off for every third-party site, you know, for "Internet safety". My take: Next step is X.com proprietary APIs inside the Webview, like payment and everything. The ultimate goal is a "mini-app" framework that use PWA-like techs to run everything based on the Webview and circumvent Appstore. And last a phone that runs the "mini-app" framework because why not, as an "AI edge node" like Elon recently proposed. [1]: https://x.com/danmurrays/status/1683446630245187584 |
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| ▲ | scuff3d 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| If there was ever a good reason to stop using Twitter, this is it. |
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| ▲ | input_sh 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't think this would even make it into top 10 good reasons to stop using Twitter. | | |
| ▲ | scuff3d 2 days ago | parent [-] | | A crazy ass billionaire trying to develop an "everything" app seems like a pretty damn good reason to run the other direction. I wouldn't want anyone controlling an app like that, much less Elon fucking Musk. | | |
| ▲ | est 2 days ago | parent [-] | | the same story applies to Wechat. Pony Ma was crazy rich for QQ and games already, he created another Wechat. Lots of ppl tried to boycott it, but network effect forced everyone to use it. |
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| ▲ | CaptWillard 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'm fascinated with the number of users of this site who seem disproportionately invested in getting people to stop using Twitter. | | |
| ▲ | paxys 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Yeah it's so fascinating that people want an open internet rather than a small group of billionaires and big tech companies controlling everything. Truly bizarre. | | |
| ▲ | CaptWillard 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | "open"? That's an interesting word to describe a platform that was previously the undisputed playground of Feds and NGOs. | | |
| ▲ | contagiousflow 2 days ago | parent [-] | | What does this mean? | | |
| ▲ | CaptWillard 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Pre-2022, Twitter was subject to heavy editorial oversight from D.C. and northern VA. Censorship and propaganda at breathtaking scale. This is a good place to start: https://twitterfiles.substack.com/ | | |
| ▲ | ceejayoz 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I like how you complain about "propaganda at breathtaking scale" and you fell for the Twitter Files, which was... precisely that. | | |
| ▲ | CaptWillard 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Please show your work. | | |
| ▲ | ceejayoz 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Musk's own lawyers did the work for us. https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/06/tech/twitter-files-lawyers/in... > “Nothing in the new materials shows any governmental actor compelling or even discussing any content-moderation action with respect to Trump” and others participating in the suit, Twitter argued. > The communications unearthed as part of the Twitter Files do not show coercion, Twitter’s lawyers wrote, “because they do not contain a specific government demand to remove content—let alone one backed by the threat of government sanction.” > “Instead,” the filing continued, the communications “show that the [FBI] issued general updates about their efforts to combat foreign interference in the 2020 election.” The evidence outlined by Twitter’s lawyers is consistent with public statements by former Twitter employees and the FBI, along with prior CNN analysis of the Twitter Files. > Altogether, the filing by Musk’s own corporate lawyers represents a step-by-step refutation of some of the most explosive claims to come out of the Twitter Files and that in some cases have been promoted by Musk himself. Don't worry, though. Under Musk's leadership, free speech is well protected. Just ask https://x.com/elonjet, which Musk specifically promised (https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456) to protect! They would never ban a news story just because it was from a hack! (https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24255298/elon-musk-x-bloc...) | | |
| ▲ | scuff3d 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | "Show you're work" Does exactly that using Musk's own lawyers "...Wait no you weren't suppose to actually do that..." | | | |
| ▲ | philipallstar 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes - it wasn't with respect to Trump. It was silencing negative stories about Biden and his son that was the proximate issue, and the general silencing of mostly Republican voices by mostly Democrat voices (though sometimes it went the other way, it was much less frequent[0]. [0] https://twitterfiles.substack.com/p/1-thread-the-twitter-fil... | | |
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| ▲ | lagniappe 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | If that were the reason we'd see even 10% of the same fervor for cutting out AWS or Cloudflare but we don't |
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| ▲ | ojr 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| the webview messes up tokens and passwords managers so I don't see this happening. The US is too culturally different to have mega apps. In Asia their supermarkets also have a lot of information in the menu for example. |
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| ▲ | jeroenhd 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Replace "mega app" with "platform" and that's pretty much what Apple and Google are, Apple especially. | | |
| ▲ | ojr 2 days ago | parent [-] | | no I will not replace mega app with platform, WeChat app is totally different from the App Store. In and Out has 5 menu items, similar to an app made in the USA, not too many features A Chinese market can list 50 items similar to WeChat that has 50 different features. The culture is reflected in the app design. source: https://digitalcreative.cn/blog/how-china-ux-is-different | | |
| ▲ | jeroenhd 2 days ago | parent [-] | | The App Store moved the clusters of icons to the home screen, but the messages and wallet app are right next to each other, and tightly integrated. You get to re-arrange and hide most icons, at least. The UI looks different (information density etc.) but in the end it's still a collection of external applications neatly wrapped inside a platform with strong walls and a strict gatekeeper, with a basic suite available by default. In China, you could ditch most of iOS if you could trick a phone into launching directly into WeChat. |
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| ▲ | mtmail 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| In January the (now former) CEO announced the X Money payment platform will debut "later this year". "Yaccarino says the Visa partnership is the “first of many big announcements” that will be made about X Money this year." https://www.theverge.com/news/599137/x-money-payments-servic... I don't remember any other big announcements. |
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| ▲ | isodev 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Who in their right mind would give X/Elon money or even enable photos or contacts access on their phone. At some point is just another money laundering thing for our (least) favourite billionaire. |
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| ▲ | gip 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Totally. Mini apps and mini-app stores are already developing in crypto (Farcaster, World,..) and the approach may well become the primary way to deploy advanced and secure apps going forward. |
