Comment on Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value

solrize@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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  • abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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    • Chriswild@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I disagree with you simply because brevity is nice but not at the expense of nuance. Having to try to follow a string of tweets because one simply can’t suffice is awful.

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      • Gamoc@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t understand the difficulty, the series of tweets are all replies to the previous tweet in the chain. Where’s the difficulty?

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    • flipht@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wonderful in theory, but in practice it's a dumpster fire. Quick, mainstreamm-acceptable takes are incentived, and nuanced, alternative viewpoints are nearly impossible.

      If it were all for hobby stuff, it would be fine, but when this is how most people get their news, it's not good.

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• Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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• glorious_albus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not to nitpick but I think the limit was 140?

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• Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And with this brilliant move they are going to increase bandwidth and strange expenses. There’s a reason why it’s so hard to compete with YouTube.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What are “strange expenses”?

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    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Typo. Was supposed to swipe “storage expenses”.

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      • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        swipe, huh?

        Gotta proofread, man :)

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• fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah “let’s make it like youtube” what could go wrong.

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