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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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[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Naw.

[–] finthechat@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Either pay or get off the Shitter

-Elon Musk

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Even if it was free, I wouldn't use it. I'd rather not waste hours of my time in there. And yes, I had that opinion before Musk bought Twitter and renamed it to X (I actually left the platform exactly 24 days before the renaming, the same day that I left Reddit).

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never used it. This doesn't make me want to start

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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hell nar we got mastadon

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

I suspect this will backfire, as usual.

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] 2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] 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.

[–] 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

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