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Will you be willing to pay for using Twitter? (variety.com)

submitted 1 year ago by t4k3@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Elon Musk said he will charge all X/Twitter users a fee to be on the platform. He suggested that such a change would be necessary to deal with the problem of bots on the platform.

“It’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots," said Elon. I can’t believe that this is the only solution he can think of.

Dealing with bots would be Elon Musk’s responsibility, considering he’s the only one profiting significantly from X, not us. Elon Musk steals our data and censors each of our posts, now he even expects us to pay to clean up the mess he created.

Plus, the problems with X go beyond just bots. The algorithm and programming decisions are negatively impacting user experience and manipulating people’s minds.

We want a town square where everyone is free to have & voice an opinion. I do not believe we have to pay ”a small monthly payment” for such a place, especially in a country that should value these freedoms & suppressing ideas.

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[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think I'd pay for Lemmy and Firefish. I like them both a lot. Not like a lot, but a tiny annual subscription fee.

If they had lifetime memberships like Livejournal did that would be cool.

Wouldn't give Elon the lice from my hair though, in the words of the great Maria Callas about her mother.

[–] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think either are really active enough to justify a cost and a payment restriction would just worsen that. I do think lemmy should be supported because the whole concept is what reddit and twitter should've been to begin with.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tiny annual subscription fee.

I'm not hosting Firefish (yet), but I do have $10/year plans for Lemmy and Mastodon. Is that within your idea of "tiny fee"?

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely. Thanks for replying, please host Firefish, it's awesome.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 year ago

To be 100% honest, I think that those that have a very specific server in mind would be better off by running their own instance, which I also do on Communick but still need to add Firefish to the list.

For the "basic" access, what I'd like to have is only one "single" instance that can "speak" Activity Pub, and then just serve different frontends that can provide the different functionality. This would IMNSHO make more sense because then people could have one single account regardless if they want to do microblogging, share pictures or talk on a forum like Lemmy.