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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Are these new users in the room with us? lmao

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is just another attempt at establishing a new status quo for other social media before Twitter dies a death due to the insurmountable debt that Musk's purchase saddled it with. We've had a bunch of things tried, so far the only thing that stuck was charging for API access (which reddit soon adopted). Let's not have this as well, please.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

tfw the free speech isn't even free monetarily

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Free speech? More like free* speech

*Only $4.99/month, yeah, definitely "free"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not a fan of him, nor a twitter user, but as far as free speech is concerned, that should mean your opinion is not censored, but the platform doesn't have to be free to use, but if it doesn't discriminate opinions, and everyone is allowed to make an account, and everyone has to pay the same

That's equal treatment, and isn't going against free speech.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

None of that was ever true for Twitter, anyway. It wasn't true before Musk bought it and it's only got worse.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Meh, you still ise Twitter, you get what you deserve.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Money is speech? This is clearly in-line with current US legal definitions so what's the problem?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

My tracking app doesn't let this site load at all, so I didn't read the article, but fuck musk. Will he remove ads when people pay them? I forgot my password for Twitter since last year and never bothered to log back into that cesspool

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

"Unfortunately, a small fee for new user write access is the only way to curb the relentless onslaught of bots," Musk wrote on X.

...that makes no sense. By "bots" usually we mean accounts that advertise one thing or another to make money. And if there's any cause worth paying money for, it's making more money. But some sports fan or BTS stan or whatever just wanting to cheer on their thing is just gonna stop posting.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"This is going to make so much easy money", Musk thinks, delusionaly, as he further alienates the former core user base of the site he bought for literal billions of dollars and yet has never made any money. "They are going to be lining up to pay for this", he imagines, forgetting that paid checkmarks was a huge ass failure and twitter still has never turned a profit.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Didn't he say this like 5 times already

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This isn't useful or sufficient. You have to consider how many bots get banned and cost to determine efficacy. If you want 10,000 fake people to manipulate real people $10,000 doesn't seem a high price if you make the fake people act organic enough that they largely aren't banned.

It would be more useful if a singular service verified sufficient credentials to prove you were an authentic human and allowed you to auth to various sites. This in turn creates the problem that verifiers now know a LOT about your online life.

If the verification involved site -> verifier -> government held public key I think you could arrange so that none of the parties had enough info to identify users.

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