Do it. Kill it once and for all.
Yeah, hoping is entourage of Yes Men makes him believe this is the best decision ever.
Watch me delete X faster than you can say “money” Elon.
I nuked it a long time ago. Late to the party?
I use it to get the latest news on NFL and NBA. Otherwise it’s gone.
This is the answer. The handful of people I still wanted to follow on Twitter all have sportsbots accounts mirroring them on Mastodon.
It’s a great way to make people migrate from Twitter, now X, to some other platform like Mastodon that works like Twitter, now X, but doesn’t have to pay a fee or have an unstable billionaire handling the platform like Twitter, now X.
As funny as this is, this is a good opportunity to remind everyone: if you can afford to kick a few bucks to your instance maintainer, do so. This will help to prevent them from feeling the need to generate income from your instance using other means.
Ugh, the daily dumb thoughts from rich people.
This is gold Jerry! Gold!
I’m convinced he’s salty that he had to go through with the deal and is now purposely nose diving twitter to kill it off
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I wouldn’t put it past him
I remember there used to be an idea floating around of paying pennies for sending email a few years ago. It would combat spam, since it would not be economically viable to send millions of emails. It failed; since it would kill email, no-one wanted to pay and lock access rights to a certain group of people.
Elon is claiming he wants this for combating bots and scraping. Whether true or not, he will realize soon enough though that people will not pay for it. (Perhaps even find out it’s not bots, but actual people downvoting him)
(At the same time, it’s a bad thing we do not want to pay for good journalism/info, it leads to free ad-riddled sites with shitty click-baity content. The good stuff is behind paywalls, and therefore not available to the general public. This leads to a breeding ground for conspiracy theories. Since those are available for free (they want the message out there) and the actual researched stuff is hidden behind those paywals)
Oh, Br’er Musk, I don’t care what you do with me, so long as you just don’t throw me in that briar patch over there.
Deep cut from the vault…
Looking at Unity and thought “I could do you one better”.
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Speaking in a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, the Tesla CEO and world’s richest person suggested that X was going to charge its user base.
Currently, Twitter only charges users for its subscription service X Premium, which offers perks such as a verified account checkmark and costs $11 a month in the US for iPhones and £11 in the UK.
Musk, who has a history of making impromptu statements, did not confirm whether X would definitely push ahead with a charging policy.
Musk has raised the prospect of a paywall as the platform battles an entrenched decline in advertising, its main source of income.
Musk has said an advertiser boycott, spurred by concerns over his leadership of the platform and its management of inappropriate or hateful content, has caused ad revenue to decline by 60%.
Netanyahu said he hoped Musk would find ways within the confines of the first amendment to clamp down on antisemitism and other forms of hatred on X.
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