Will you be willing to pay for using Twitter?

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.

muntedcrocodile,
@muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world avatar

Hell nar we got mastadon

obinice,
@obinice@lemmy.world avatar

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

Pohl,

We have reached the point where I want answers from any person or organization that is still active on twitter. They are actively legitimizing nazis. If you are on twitter, you are part of the problem. I’m not gonna draw lines around which people on a right wing reactionary platform are the “good ones” any more.

wolre,

As I understand, even when paying you would still see ads and not get any benefits over what Twitter is at the moment whatsoever. I honestly cannot imagine the platform retaining many users after such a drastic step.

ram,
@ram@lemmy.ca avatar

IIRC current twitter blue subscribers see 50% fewer ads than free users.

cryomancer20x6,

This seriously does not belong in a Technology community.

t4k3,

Sorry but I’m new to Lemmy. Which community should I go? I’ll post there next time.

cryomancer20x6,

!enoughmuskspam is way more in line for this.

theKalash,

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

CookieJarObserver,
@CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works avatar

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

jinarched,
@jinarched@lemm.ee avatar

Nah, I’ll definitely get that latte instead.

Blapoo,

I’d happily pay a monthly fee for twitter to stop existing

Valmond,

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.

the_robomafia,
@the_robomafia@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll just leave these here https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6f98d86c-0420-4a8b-adbb-dd9830e002c5.jpeg?format=jpg

Fal,
@Fal@yiffit.net avatar

Why would you leave this trash here?

FireWire400,
@FireWire400@lemmy.world avatar

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

Can’t imagine why… Nope

Mesaji,

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    FireWire400, (edited )
    @FireWire400@lemmy.world avatar

    “lower tier pricing for premium members” sounds more like they’ll introduce another, cheaper Blue-like subscription rather than a mandatory fee

    Mesaji,

    Eventually everyone needs to pay for using X. Migrating already

    jazzkob,
    @jazzkob@lemmy.world avatar

    no I’m not willing to play for using twitter, I’ll just delete my account.

    as for the “it’s the only way to combat the army of bots” comment - how is that the army of bots only became a problem after twitter became x? i never had a problem before but now my every tweet is liked by a kinsley, madeline, josephine, mia or layla. it’s crazy.

    oh, maybe that’s one of the microservices they shut down

    smileyhead,

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

    ArugulaZ,
    @ArugulaZ@kbin.social avatar

    Sorry Jovan Musk, from Calvin Klein! The answer is nooooOOOOOoooo. Old Twitter is dead. You killed it, and now you're trying to sell me its smelly corpse.

    damnthefilibuster,

    We want a town square…

    I just want to comment on this part, if that’s ok. Town squares are inherently not free. Sure, everyone is free to come to it. But it’s still paid for by someone. Usually by people who stand to gain the most value out of it. This has always been my problem with Twitter and Facebook and their ilk.

    There are wonderful examples of people trying different payment models and yes, most of them have failed. But let’s look at them for a minute.

    App.net came out swinging at one point, with the idea of a (what was it?) fifty dollars a year payment model. It was a great idea. But it lagged because of a few reasons. Instead of keeping the $50 price point and using the extra money to allow for free accounts, the founders first dropped the price to $36 a year and then quietly raised VC funding, which went against everything they talked about and thus the community turned. Needless to say, the service was dead a few years after it came.

    Before that there was WhatsApp. WhatsApp would randomly charge people $1 to $3 for download or subscription. Their experiment was wildly successful. If you could do MMS with just $1 a year from everyone on your network (or, heck, some random number of people on your network), what’s better than that? WhatsApp’s Achilles? Selling to Facebook. Now it’s unmoored from its founding principles. It’s growing. But for every one bespoke feature added, two features are added that push your data to Facebook.

    Then there’s micro.blog. The pricing is simple - $5 a month and you get a blog and a social media handle. Right now, the founder hasn’t cracked down on accounts that paid once and are only using the social features of the network without being able to blog on it. It’s surprisingly successful, though niche. Will it fail? Seems like there’s enough runway since the founder is strict about no free signups. That town square isn’t free to join.

    The fediverse is blowing up and so are standalone companies with their homegrown social networks like posts.cv and whatever Substack calls their social network. Also egalitarian European countries are launching their own mastodon sites to host a digital town square for their citizens. It’s a great time to be on social media.

    But none of the real digital town squares are free. Nor should they be. Yes, a small monthly fee seems unnecessary. But Twitter isn’t a public good. It isn’t infrastructure. It isn’t paid for with our taxes. If the US Government launches their own mastodon site then you can absolutely comment on how important it is for this country to value freedoms. Till then, stop expecting private companies to not experiment with pricing models.

    Also, Elon is an idiot and Twitter is dead. But that’s besides the point.

    Chickenstalker,

    Bla bla bla. Muh Adam Smith, muh invisible hand. If there are ads, it should be free. Dumbass.

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