Post ASr8Oqc6S6Uprdvu9g by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
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 (DIR) Post #ASqpqfx1n4UBm4HBp2 by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-02-19T22:27:11Z
       
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       Dying platforms trying to change their business models from free to paid are unlikely to change their overall trajectory.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASqqFrVNyAUIqfMAb2 by jimcarroll@futurist.info
       2023-02-19T22:31:40Z
       
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       @lauren They will surely succeed!!!!!
       
 (DIR) Post #ASqqMHHf2PzgXLzpSa by kevin@mastodon.km6g.us
       2023-02-19T22:32:44Z
       
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       @lauren Same vibe as struggling companies who try repeatedly cutting costs to return to profitability.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASqqTnN68RES5A7kdE by chaircrusher@masto.ai
       2023-02-19T22:33:36Z
       
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       @laurenMusk is a tech bro Grover Norquist. His goal is to reduce the size of Twitter to where he can drag it to the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASquXRoAeHK6BCmfvk by roger@coales.co
       2023-02-19T23:19:39Z
       
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       @lauren It worked when TV went from free broadcast to paid cable, somehow, but perhaps that has just delayed the inevitable.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASqupNKA3i37U9IPXU by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-02-19T23:22:59Z
       
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       @roger Except that free broadcast still exists, and in fact is expanding with the deployment of ATSC 3.0 (aka "NEXTGENTV") -- with a rapid rise in cable cutters now going back to over-air broadcasts.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASquuBhAipWQroLzmK by TonyJWells@mastodon.social
       2023-02-19T23:23:50Z
       
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       @lauren Dying platform needs to find a rube to sell to,. oh......[places call to Verizon]
       
 (DIR) Post #ASquy5dJCgDxDuPKM4 by roger@coales.co
       2023-02-19T23:24:36Z
       
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       @lauren Yeah, exactly.  The platform as a platform is still doing great.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASqv5X6JTeLKRMWV4C by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-02-19T23:25:57Z
       
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       @roger Free TV never went paid and never switched to a paid model. Cable is a fork, not a replacement.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASqvJkd3yb0yS3cavY by roger@coales.co
       2023-02-19T23:28:23Z
       
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       @lauren Indeed!  We are in complete agreement.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASr8Oqc6S6Uprdvu9g by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-02-20T01:55:03Z
       
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       @jimcarroll And that's about $40 in 2023 dollars.