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Will you be willing to pay for using Twitter? (variety.com)
submitted 2 years 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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[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Naw.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

lol

[–] 2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not willing to use it even while it's still free, so no. Mastodon FTW

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

I suspect this will backfire, as usual.

[–] mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

this is never going to happen unless musk looks for a reason to shut xitter down. like so many times before he's talking out loud what he's thinking right now, creating a massive migrane among the guys still running the site and everyone who is financially invested in it.

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Anytime there is a pole, I will vote yes.

But I am totally not going to do it.

Charging for the platform is a sure fire way to make it disappear. I hope Twitter disappears.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Considering I won't use Twitter now and it's free...

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Theoretically, if I could pay for a Twitter, with Twitter's reach, without Twitter's rage-creation algorithm, without any links to ad companies, I might perhaps do it. But I believe Musk is mainly offering just the very first thing from that list.

[–] Korkki@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

He just does the "all publicity is good publicity" trick. He isn't so stupid to actually do it.

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