Twitter adds video calling – and lets strangers ring you
www.independent.co.uk
Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up

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          • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            37·
            1 year ago

            Well it’s hard to tell sarcasm online, especially when no steps to convey tone or articulation have been added to the text formatting.

              • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                39·
                1 year ago

                Or, you know, instead of pulling a straw man simply italicize part of the comment to emphasize sarcasm…

                • Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  6·
                  1 year ago

                  I get that you have a hard time recognizing jokes and non-literal language, and I really do sympathize, but it’s unreasonable to expect everyone to change the way they write. Realistically, it’s just not going to happen. Your options are to accept that you will frequently misunderstand people or try to level up your reading comprehension.

    • OldWoodFrame@lemm.eeEnglish
      56·
      1 year ago

      An explanation I’ve heard for why we don’t have “everything apps” in the US is because we all have an app store on our phones and that’s the niche the everything apps were really solving for.

      • golli@lemm.eeEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        That and i think we also adopted technology differently. Places like China or india in a way skipped most of the PC/Laptop phase and went straight to smartphones as their main device to access everything. On a PC/Laptop you’ll access most things through a browser, so many services already existed this way and also remain accessible through that.

        And even to this day many will prefer to do some things on a larger screen rather than a smartphone, even if by now it is the primary device.

        • OldWoodFrame@lemm.eeEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          Comes pre-installed on the phone. I think it was possible to download apps from websites too, it was just not as convenient.

          • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            So is there like a single app on their Home Screen?

            They tap it and it opens an app with a bunch of other apps in it? Or a bunch of tabs, or other widgets you have to scroll around to find the functionality you want?

            I get why China would want this, for content control. But I don’t see why india or anywhere else would want this.

            • OldWoodFrame@lemm.eeEnglish
              7·
              1 year ago

              There are still like calculator apps and web browsers and such, “everything” is more like instead of Paypal/Venmo, you use WeChat. Instead of ApplePay, WeChat. Instead of Facebook, WeChat. Instead of Uber, WeChat. It’s just all that functionality smashed into one app.

              I don’t think it’s designed by the state to be centralized, it’s just how things happened in a lot of Asia.