Post ASVEIUcJW1ZO1aNJS4 by thibaultmol@en.osm.town
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(DIR) Post #ASVBx5zJgsPleKntD6 by stux@mstdn.social
2023-02-09T11:51:25Z
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So basically you have to pay #Twitter to get noticed or even post these days :flan_laugh: Now we can see exactly how billionaires try to squeeze every last penny out of the people :blobcatthinksmart: Itβs not about the content but the money, money, money ofc πΈ Tweet limits should only be used as a βtoolβ against timeline spamming(max xx posts per minute), not to force people to pay. Thatβs bad
(DIR) Post #ASVCIbvu7CKAo3T064 by stux@mstdn.social
2023-02-09T11:55:17Z
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@peteriskrisjanis it would certain be a HUGE challenge thatβs for sure!
(DIR) Post #ASVCKsmuQ5uPezLJ9U by akdk7@moin.city
2023-02-09T11:55:48Z
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@stux Hey Stux. My server just received your post, please pay a small fee so your text can be stored permanently! π
(DIR) Post #ASVCWMXG9wRt6dUrbs by indri@masto.ai
2023-02-09T11:57:53Z
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@stux Paying to be allowed to spam. What could go wrong?
(DIR) Post #ASVDPuQxpLmGAR2Swa by matt@oslo.town
2023-02-09T12:07:55Z
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@stux I think one of the very silly things about all of this is that #TwitterBlue is only available in certain regions.US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, UK, Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, India, Indonesia, and Brazil.You live somewhere else? You're basically getting a lot of features being made inaccessible to you - even if you wanted to pay for it.
(DIR) Post #ASVDVf3vtITgEO0c6q by stux@mstdn.social
2023-02-09T12:08:56Z
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@matt yikes.. because of the payment system or?Are they planning to make it globally available at some point?
(DIR) Post #ASVDnRHrqUPgij0IpE by matt@oslo.town
2023-02-09T12:12:12Z
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@stux I just quoted from the #Twitter Help Center. They say they plan to expand the number of countries, but don't specify why it's restricted in the first place.https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-blueI'm browsing here from Norway, and see no options anywhere to upgrade to Twitter Blue.
(DIR) Post #ASVE0ekv55HuFztZJY by apodoxus@mastodon.online
2023-02-09T12:14:34Z
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@matt @stux much like citizenship in the real world... global segregation
(DIR) Post #ASVEIUcJW1ZO1aNJS4 by thibaultmol@en.osm.town
2023-02-09T12:17:48Z
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@matt@stux Oh not to worry. It's not like there are rumours that they might limit the amount you can use Twitter in general.. oh waithttps://mastodon.social/@lashman/109834341230962255XD
(DIR) Post #ASVEWokrRM2aXFCg3k by RTV@mstdn.social
2023-02-09T12:20:22Z
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@stux I don't understand why people are still using Twitter. Even if people don't care about their policies, the service outages and greed should be enough to drive people away.
(DIR) Post #ASVEoJZM7sWf1lAJGK by matt@oslo.town
2023-02-09T12:23:34Z
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@thibaultmol I mean, that's fine. Twitter is probably very expensive to run and Elon's take seems to be "let's pass the cost on to the user"Pay-to-play is probably a better world than angel investors and ad tracking.I'm just happy there's FOSS alternatives and the #Fediverse so the same functionality is available to everyone for free.@stux
(DIR) Post #ASVF1ZJqsaXfdiEXDc by 8lettersuk@mstdn.social
2023-02-09T12:25:57Z
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@stux Oh I stopped caring already. What's the new crazy plan today?
(DIR) Post #ASVGrgjKfdlVdXZHgu by johnlehet@mas.to
2023-02-09T12:46:32Z
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@stux I happily paid $15/month for an online community, the WELL, for a decade and a half. It was worth it to me and our user payments barely covered the costs. I subscribe to a couple of papers and a magazine. Donate to @trumpet running my instance monthly. Good stuff is worth paying for.But at the moment, Twitter is not good stuff worth paying for (or even using for free). And apparently getting worse every week.
(DIR) Post #ASVH5VGE6uhK7RXdo0 by stux@mstdn.social
2023-02-09T12:49:01Z
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@johnlehet @trumpet Me also! But more like a over the thousand per month :blobcatgiggle: Only i mean more like it should be optional for people who can miss it and want to support the platform π But twitter is now gonna limit people who don't pay.. And like others pointed out, you can only get Twitter Blue in certain countries so if youre outside that you dont even have the option
(DIR) Post #ASVIX5GyQVNva6bf3g by busraa@mstdn.social
2023-02-09T13:05:12Z
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@stux what is this shit about i can't get it. Turkiye need help. All people asking for help they send their location to save them. Whyyy now that happened really whyyy?? #EarthquakeinTurkey #Earthquakes #help #deprem #twitter #elonmuskcangofuckhimself
(DIR) Post #ASVIwQtbAak3splBs8 by dctucker@mastodon.world
2023-02-09T13:09:49Z
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@stux Surely you've read Cory Doctorow's wonderful writing on enshittification. The intro: "Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."Elon moved Twitter quickly and firmly to the penultimate stage and is now drifting toward the end stage. Buh bye...https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
(DIR) Post #ASVJCm8rwbrcPXhBoW by johnlehet@mas.to
2023-02-09T13:12:45Z
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@stux Yeah, itβs unfair and counterproductive. #Musk is doing so much worse than I could have imagined, and I knew it would be bad. Heβs either really stupid or he wants to kill #Twitter slowly for some reason. If he were smart he would kill it quickly; if he were really smart heβd be able to do good things to save it. Neither of those, apparently.
(DIR) Post #ASVLBOnTSHJrct9xWi by hu_logic@mastodon.social
2023-02-09T13:31:35Z
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@matt @thibaultmol @stux I don't think Pay-to-Play model works for social media where you need a disproportionally large "free" tier to create content.Otherwise it's just a pay-walled forum circa 2000...
(DIR) Post #ASVMXI9cvuNnLiWadU by dick_turpin@castlecannon.house
2023-02-09T13:48:45Z
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"π΄π²πΆπ¦π¦π»π¦ π¦π·π¦π³πΊ ππ’π΄π΅ π±π¦π―π―πΊ π°πΆπ΅ π°π§ π΅π©π¦ π±π¦π°π±ππ¦" but nobody was paying anything (Apart from advertisers) before he bought it.The danger here for him is if half the userbase leaves because they cannot or refuse to pay to use the service because advertisers will then demand price reductions due to the low audience figures, which in turn means he's not going to generate any extra revenue which he needs in order to meet the $300M instalment payments.
(DIR) Post #ASVR0nCgyEkDrVHTZA by DefinitelyNotCrabs@mstdn.social
2023-02-09T14:40:13Z
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@stux they need to get money to send to Ukraine lol
(DIR) Post #ASVRZlEmH0bHtmvkoK by stux@mstdn.social
2023-02-09T14:46:33Z
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@DefinitelyNotCrabs No, Elon needs to pay off his 10bln debt π
(DIR) Post #ASVT35jNG3KtoIn8aG by Shachihoko@mastodon.social
2023-02-09T15:02:52Z
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@stux If the bullion-brained buffoon wants me to pay to use Twitter, I have fewer problems than ever with simply not using it any more.
(DIR) Post #ASVXMWnFGRZZ3t7r8a by grobmeier@mastodon.social
2023-02-09T15:51:26Z
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@matt @stux actually support for Germany is really a new thingβ¦ wasnβt there long time ago.
(DIR) Post #ASVbe7qT9tYSiSHRr6 by mookie@happyorange.xyz
2023-02-09T16:39:23Z
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@stux @donmelton Not only that, but you have to pay #Twitter for the privilege of posting content that they can monetize against. The billionaire CEO thanks those paying for their servitude.
(DIR) Post #ASVxvz14v9cvXPAAYy by DefinitelyNotCrabs@mstdn.social
2023-02-09T20:49:05Z
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@stux he's one of the Americans with triple digit IQ though lol