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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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[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] sndrtj@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Absolutely not.

[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Given I don't use it now and it's free, I don't think making it paid is suddenly going to incentivise me to do so

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

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

[–] ram@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I can't imagine there's many people who even like twitter on the fediverse, much less would like it enough to pay for it.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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

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

Why do I have to see the face of this idiot almost daily? I don't use that shit X and never will. What's the appeal? I even could understand TikTok somehow, but X/Twitter? Where's the informational value in these completely useless posts there?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Lol this saga just keeps getting better

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

I dont even want it, now.. lol

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