Any chance he promotes Rumble as an alternative to YT? I also see @Jack followed the CEO of Rumble on Twitter a few weeks ago and I know Jack has been meeting with Elon over the Twitter deal. Rumble is still aggressively tweeting in elons comment section so I'm sure he is aware of Rumble. If Elon has any plans I doubt Rumble is in on it, at least for now.
Posted Jun 8, 2022, 12:32 AM UTC
What Elon is starting to realize (or make people realize) is that the web as we know it such as Twitter, FB, Youtube, Google etc... are being heavily manipulated to drive a certain narrative. It's up for grabs for the highest bidder. In the process, these artificial accounts also look very good on paper (the amount of users) but once we dig deeper, the amount and quality of actual engagement is quite low. On the other hand, authentic users are being banned/shadowed banned if they speak out against the narrative. This narrative spread social contagions that can subconsciously affect the users of said platform, and move them further and further left while painting the other as "being more radicalized and moving further right".
Economically speaking, for Elon to keep Twitter afloat and keep the status quo, he and his team has to engage in the same tactics to keep the inflated number of users high. Though I doubt that's the case, bc 1) that's not how Musk runs his businesses and 2) some "disgruntled" employee that wont be able to work only 2 hours per week will "leak" these data out about bots account anyway, effectively blunder the company into non-profitability.
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Elon is an absolute fuckwit. Cursed with almost everything he touches except for the Elon stans that feed off of him. Want nothing to do with him with CFVI.
How many billions does it take to convince you?
A disgusting human being is being celebrated not just his wealth.
Can you elaborate why he's a "disgusting human being"?
Solid information. Did you watch Chris interview with Gorka? He mentioned a tech stack that is needed to complete the free speech model. Missing from the stack was cell phones, App Store and internet. All of which Musk has. Tesla is launching a phone and App Store and musk has starlink already. Rumble will have video, cloud, email, and payment processing.
Interesting perspective. I didn't take away that myself. One thing Trump's circle seems to not understand is that Android apps can be downloaded without the Google play store. Only iPhone forces you to go through their app store. So an appstore is really not needed, they can put the apk file up for download on their website and people could download it directly from there if they chose to.
I looked into Tesla phone and app store and am not seeing it personally... Tesla phone is a bunch of rumors based on nothing. Elon shot down phones awhile ago in favor of neural link. Tesla app store does exist but it focuses on applications used inside of a Tesla vehicle.
Lastly I don't think Rumble is working with Elon behind the scenes (yet). If they were working with him I believe they would stop trying to get his attention on Twitter and go radio silent. As a psychological behavior to avoid giving anyone the idea until they were ready for an official announcement.
I still think Elon is planning something. There is a reason he is calling out youtube lately and we all know he can't afford to buy youtube. But he can easily afford Rumble.
Yeah the whole thing with Rumble and Chris tweeting at Elon to no avail is interesting. Elon clearly knows of Rumble, there is no way he doesn’t.
Can’t tell if it’s good or not that Elon isn’t saying anything. It’s possible Elon doesn’t want to manipulate the stock before it merges.
Elon is very calculated in his actions. He knows Rumble exists. He is not acknowledging them on purpose as it would be taken as an endorsement. But I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. He has to be careful about what he mentions because he is so influential. He knows this.
I concur.
In his most recent All-in podcast (Episode 69, figure), Elon mentioned a "mega-app" like WeChat becoming a necessity, and he envisions Twitter to be the base of which he can builds that on. Payment, social, video, files / web hosting, IOT plugins (tesla walls, solar roof, vehicles etc..). I think this is Elon's ambitious effort to connect most of his companies into a huge conglomerate. It's a vertical integration strategy. Whether Rumble could fit into that as the initial hosting service for this effort, is a big but not impossible "maybe".
When worded in that way I become skeptical. It's not that Rumble isn't a great service. It's that Elon could build his own competitor if he really wanted to.
I agree with your idea of the bigger picture. Apple already has a huge share of the software and hardware space that will allow them to become dangerous competitors in the EV space that all contributes to a greater and all-encompassing consumer tech ecosystem.
The way I see it, Rumble is more of a service provider than a competitor, if Elon was to build a mega app/ ecosystem. The service being provided here is cloud hosting / cyber infrastructure. It's akin to Tesla needing materials to build EVs. Elon isn't going to create an entire company to mine and process materials, but he will outsource it given if the manufacturers are reliable and flexible. I could make the same case here for Rumble, to provide a hardened, secured, and most importantly foul-play proof cloud infrastructure for Elon Musk's future plans of vertical integration.
Boom!