# X Is Engaged on ‘Decoupling’ Its DM Performance

Quickly, you’ll be capable of use X as your main DM platform of selection, even if you happen to by no means publish the rest within the app.

Which, I suppose, you’ll be able to already do now, however X is attempting to make this a extra definitive purposeful break up.

In one other step in direction of Elon Musk’s “the whole lot app” imaginative and prescient, X is at present engaged on “de-coupling” DMs from different in-app experiences.

App researcher Nima Owji has uncovered a new possibility within the back-end code of the app, which is able to seemingly allow X customers to provoke separate performance in DMs versus different parts.

So that you’d be capable of block messages from somebody, however nonetheless see their posts in-stream.

X proprietor Elon Musk replied to this, explaining that X is “decoupling” DMs from public posting “in order that if all you need to do is use this platform for messaging, however not publish publicly, you are able to do so.”

Which, once more, you’ll be able to virtually do now, however the concept is that it will present one other manner to make use of X as a separate device to your day by day interactive course of, i.e. you gained’t need to log onto X and examine the most recent posts so as to nonetheless use it as your DM platform.

Which is fascinating, I suppose. Although the primary flaw that I see in most of those options and experiments is that there’s probably not any motive for folks to make use of them, exterior of supporting Elon’s mission to create a “free speech” aligned platform.

Like, certain, now you can watch X’s slate of unique video reveals on your house TV set, however there’s probably not a lot that has main viewers enchantment there as but. Positive, you’ll quickly be capable of conduct digital meet-ups on X, as a substitute of utilizing Zoom, however the performance isn’t on the similar stage of Zoom or Google Meet. So that you’d be altering your established course of for a lesser product.

Positive, you could quickly be capable of make funds on X. However why would you?

I notice that that is all a part of the “the whole lot app” imaginative and prescient, and that, ultimately, the hope is that X will facilitate so lots of your day by day capabilities that you simply’ll by no means want to make use of some other app. But it surely looks as if the calculations for adoption of those options relies on the belief that individuals will simply use them, versus conducting their day by day actions in different apps and instruments, as they at all times have.

Recurring behaviors are exhausting to shift, and with none actual incentive to drive folks to X as a substitute, which might ideally be by means of improved choices, I don’t see why folks will achieve this.

So proper now, X is clearly engaged on a spread of various choices, however none of them are higher than the assorted alternate options, which individuals already use.

So, certain, you could quickly be capable of message individually on X, so you should utilize it primarily as a messaging app. However will folks care?