# X Is Engaged on Decoupling Its DM Performance

Quickly, you’ll have the ability to use X as your main DM platform of alternative, even when you by no means publish the rest within the app.

Which, I assume, you may already do now, however X is attempting to make this a extra definitive practical break up.

In one other step in direction of Elon Musk’s “every little thing app” imaginative and prescient, X is at present engaged on separating out DMs from different in-app experiences.

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

So that you’d have the ability to 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 wish to do is use this platform for messaging, however not publish publicly, you are able to do so.”

Which, once more, you may virtually do now, however the concept is that this can present one other means to make use of X as a separate instrument in your day by day interactive course of, i.e. you received’t must log onto X and verify the newest posts so as to nonetheless use it as your DM platform.

Which is fascinating, I assume. Although the principle 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, positive, now you can watch X’s slate of authentic video exhibits on your house TV set, however there’s probably not a lot that has main viewers attraction there as but. And also you’ll quickly have the ability to conduct digital meet-ups on X, as an alternative of utilizing Zoom, however the performance isn’t on the identical degree of Zoom or Google Meet. So that you’d be altering your established course of for a lesser product.

You could even quickly have the ability to make funds on X. However why would you?

I notice that that is all a part of the “every little thing app” imaginative and prescient, and that, ultimately, the hope is that X will facilitate so lots of your day by day features that you just’ll by no means want to make use of every other app. But it surely looks like the calculations for adoption of those options relies on the idea that individuals will simply use them, versus conducting their day by day actions in different apps and instruments, as they all the time have.

Recurring behaviors are onerous to shift, and with none actual incentive to drive folks to X as an alternative, which might ideally be by means of improved choices, I don’t see why folks will accomplish that.

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

So, positive, chances are you’ll quickly have the ability to message individually on X, so you should use it primarily as a messaging app. However will folks care?