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Will you be willing to pay for using Twitter? (variety.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would also stop most regular users from signing up. This kind of stuff being free has just become the norm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Even better!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not that I add much but I would not be here if that was the case.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Blizzard thought that with Overwatch, but despite the game costing money botting was still very much an issue.