So now we have X, or eX-Twitter.
It seems that there are a few IT entrepreneurs who want to dominate the world. Apparently Musk has plans to create the dominant "social" app.

What a contrast all this is to how the internet started with open standards, search engines without publicity, even YouTube had little publicity and what there was was not intrusive. Email and SMS messages were a standard format that could be viewed on the device or operating system of your choice.

What do we have now? A jungle of incompatible messaging systems where every promoter wants exclusive rights to data-mine your messages and collect the details of all your contacts; and intrusive advertising makes veiwing many sites such a pain that it is often easier to just abandon viewing some sites than continue.

Don't get me wrong, I understand someone has to pay for the services but the end result is too many parasites in the system that just add to the cost of everything without actually providing anything of value.

I just wish that we could have a standard messaging system (like email and SMSs) where we could use the service provider or app of our choice for ruotine messages and, perhaps more funtionallity when messaging users of the same system.

It is true that the plain SMS is now somewhat limited in today's world but an enhanced version of MMS supported by all the major messging apps would be wonderful and could be set up in susch a way that you could effectively message users of apps that are different to your choice of app.

A dream? of course it is! the main players in the world of "social" and messaging apps have no intention of co-operating with others in their mad lust for power, wealth , and, above all, domination.

Peter

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