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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meta adding the same features to all their apps, for whatever reason

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everybody wants to be We Chat.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And WeChat sucks. The only reason it dominates in China is because the government mandated a bunch of social control stuff to run there making it virtually mandatory just to exist in China.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Western VCs wished they could have their shitty app being mandatory.

Look at El Musk and his "X app" obsession. He wants it so bad he burned the brand he paid BILLIONS to acquire just to chase his everything app.

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

I think part of his plan was to quickly roll crypto into it... but then by the time he actually acquired it Crypto took a huge downturn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

not really tbh