Technology

I’m not willing to use it now, for free… not sure if this plan will incentivize me to join up.

I'll tell you next week when I stop laughing.

I'm not opposed to paying for services I enjoy/find value in, and from companies I don't dislike

Twitter does not pass these guidelines

I wasn't even using it when it was free!

I don't use Twitter for free

At this point, I have to conclude that Musk is actively trying to kill Twitter.

I suspect the majority of people who would pay for twitter already are.

I'm not even willing to use it for free 💀

Twitter ad sales have plunged 50% since he bought the company

Can't imagine why.... Nope

Oh yes, certainly. Wow Mr Musk you’re such a genius and good decision maker, please start charging for Twitter. Please don’t listen to the naysayers and go ahead with the brilliant business strategy. I’m definitely not taking delight in your constant series of self-owns.

I wouldn't use twitter if they paid me

I hate twitter!

Use mastodon.

Twitter has just gotten worse and worse!

Use mastodon.

If only there were some other platform!

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I’d be willing to pay $100/month for it. Please charge at least that much!

Pay no attention to the fact that I used it once for like a week 15 years ago. That’s only because it was too free!

I refused to use this cancerous hellsite long before its 'fall' what makes you think I want to use it now?

I wouldn't be willing to use if I was getting paid.

I don't use fascist websites at all, I'm certainly not going to pay for one. Come now.

A monthly fee seems idiotic but yes please do it! Please!

That said I think a $5 signup fee on Mastodon or Lemmy that is not refunded if you get banned would seriously help stop bots. They only make pennies per bot and if you make their cost even minimally painful the economics fall apart.

One more wave for Mastodon for sure.

I hope he actually does this. Twitter will die almost immediately and become completely worthless.

He would need to pay me for being there, and not just a little.

No, Twitter/X always been shit. Yes even before Elon Musk became the CTO. It was awful under Jack Dorsey.

If I had to pay to use a social media service, it would have to be something I found utterly necessary. I'm not a fan of the trend toward everything being a subscription, so if any service unexpectedly changes to a subscription based service, I'm far more likely to experiment with cutting it out of my life and routine to see if I really needed it to begin with. So far out of the hundreds of subscription service I've had over the last 15 years, I've resubscribed to only 10 or so, and out of those only 3 where because I genuinely valued the service enough to pay for it, rather then because I had gotten an offer for 3 months free, then terminated the account before I was charged for anything. Why pay a provider to use my data for profit and show me ads I have no interest in or desire to see? If I wanted commercials I would watch cable, instead of using a streaming service I explicit choose for not showing constant ads.

I would treat Lemmy the same way. If I had to pay, I wouldn't play. There are other options for my time, simple as that.

If you want a free (in all its meanings) platform to speak on just use Mastodon

Oh wait, you're serious. Let me laugh even harder!

You would have to pay me, for me to be there

I think this marks the true end of twitter. Undoubtedly, some people will literally pay to have ol' muskys thoughts shoved in their face and get their data collected, see garbage alt-right memes but if he fails, if he can't even make it a premium-feeling cult experience now... (which obviously his vision, but let's be real it's a longshot- he's only gonna be a clown) I don't see it lasting much longer.

For those that are saying "no" because it's Musk: would you be willing to pay to your account on Lemmy, Mastodon, or any other social network that you happen to use?

Let me be specific: I am not asking if you donate or contribute to any server. I am asking if you'd sign up to a social network that required payment from every user as a measure to avoid spammers and to keep the service running.

lol. He is just stirring the pot. It’s what he does. I recommend ignoring him and just using something else. It is either going to sink or not.

Ex-twitter seems to me to be going in a disjointed “by the seat of the pants” direction. It’s like a kid playing with his new toy. “My toy, I make the rules and I don’t care what you think.”

The thing is, it technically is his toy. It is not a global square. It is a private company. I take issue with what has been going on, but my opinions are irrelevant to the situation.

The real question is how much would I accept in payment to use Twitter. It's probably not a lot, but it surely is not negative.

YES, I will absolutely pay for X every month! Greatest idea he’s ever had.

Yes to the polls, but no chance in hell

I am so tired of seeing this goon on my feed

Urgh why is this "technology"

It all sounds like "Dude is thinking about maybe making changes on some thing ..."

But yeah from now on I'll just downvote.

I hate Musk because as an artist there are many artist on twitter (X) that I really like. One of it is Naoki Saito & Mika Pikazo and then some useful things likes pose maniac to help out artist to get pose ideas. A lot of Japanese makes oneshot or it's continuous story manga on twitter. The reason why I stay a little longer because of the artist of twitter but now I will slowly drift away on twitter.

For this money I would rather donate, pay for membership or create my own Mastodon instance.

I wouldn't use Twitter even if it was the one paying ME