X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service::X owner Elon Musk today floated the idea that the social network formerly known as Twitter may no longer be a free site. In a live-streamed conversation
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Not a single actual quote from Elon in this article. Does anyone know what he actually said? Because the title states it as a definitive while the excerpts sound more like he was just floating the idea out loud.
“It’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots,” explained Musk.
I mean specifically the bit about “X will…” as if it is a fact.
Yeah that’s true. The headline is asserting something that I don’t think Musk has actually said he will do. On the other hand, I’m having trouble thinking of any random idea Musk has had that he didn’t attempt to follow through on.
Not if they’re funded by deep pockets like with governments and corporations.
Yes please.
BURN IT DOWN !
It probably won’t, but it keeps Musk in the news.
But people keep talking about it and upvoting it. Please just downvote the musk spam. This isn’t even about Twitter/x, it’s just musk rambling.
So many articles about what he’s pondering or what he might do
How about we read about it when something actually changes
I only suggest to do your part in down voting clickbait.
Blue tick users: We are already paying a fee
Elon: Yes, but what about a second fee? Premium tweets? Twitter awards?
I don’t think they’ve heard of second fee, Elon.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
X owner Elon Musk today floated the idea that the social network formerly known as Twitter may no longer be a free site.
In a live-streamed conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, Musk said the company was “moving to a small monthly payment” for the use of the X system.
But since Musk took over the platform last year, the company has been pushing its users to subscribe to its paid subscription product, X Premium (previously Twitter Blue).
X doesn’t disclose how many paid subscribers it has, but independent research indicates X Premium hasn’t attracted a majority of X users.
Platformer last year reported that Musk was weighing the idea of putting all of Twitter behind a paywall, in fact.
The larger conversation between Musk and Netanyahu today focused on AI technology and its regulation, though the topic of hate speech on X came up.
The original article contains 498 words, the summary contains 148 words. Saved 70%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
And people will still insist on remaining there. I’m convinced Musk could shut down the site tomorrow, and people would continuously refresh until it somehow reappears.
I hope this is the one thing that he actually follows through on. Drive a stake through it already
I really hope so too. I’m tired of Musk.
We all are. He sucks so much and looks like a dollar store Kathy Bates.
I’m trying to figure out if that’s more insulting to Kathy Bates or Dollar Stores.
I wish Lemmy had keyword filters.
Edit: hmmm… Maybe the slur filter will work. Let’s try.
If you’re using Lemmy on iPhone, Memmy (application) provides this feature. It works pretty well
The beauty of the Fediverse is that many tasks like this can be done by the client, as opposed to the actual base software.
For instance, Lemmy can’t actually block instances or “subs” (or whatever the equivalent is) on an individual level, but Voyager can.
On another point, as much as I hate hearing about Musk and Twitter, they are both very powerful, and both have an impact on the world. Especially if Twitter were to become an “everything app” (AKA Superapp)(which it hopefully won’t).
True, but the clients are still in their infancy. Liftoff has no support for it as far as I know. Meanwhile, I have the luck of running my own instance, so if the filter fixes it, that would be great.
When I still used Twitter, I was very glad to be able to filter out Trump, otherwise I’d see half a dozen tweets about him per day. We’re kinda heading there with removed on Lemmy now, and I really don’t even want to spend the mental energy it takes to ignore it.
Edit: meh. Using the slur filter just replaces “removed” with “removed”. Time to investigate some other clients I guess.
Nail. Coffin. Good riddance.
A service that I have to pay for AND it harvests and sells my personal data? SIGN ME UP!
If Musk wants me to use his shitty crap site, I will be charging him a small monthly fee.
Very misleading title. Apparently floating an idea is now committing to implement a policy.
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Lol, reality doesn’t matter
Musk living that rent free?
The only way to fight bots is to charge users a fee? Gee, I wonder how all of these other sites do it. 2-factor logins, manual auth prompts, rotating passwords on suspected accounts… a real unsolvable problem for the stable tech genius, I see.
The idea isn’t to get rid of bots. It’s to make money off them.
It’ll get rid of bots…. And most other users
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Nah, let’s skip to the part where Musk tries to move them using cheap labour and a screwdriver.
Wait … we already had that.
Nobody saw this coming. Ever. Not even once. 🙄
I’ve deleted my account way before Elon bought the company and haven’t been back since. When I was super active on Twitter which was many years ago and they said I had to pay a small fee every month I would have stopped using it right away. I don’t see the benefit of having social media and I sure as shit won’t pay for any of them. I’m in my 40’s so maybe it’s just me or my age but I can’t imagine anything on those platforms that would be worth a dollar a month.
Sounds like he’s trying to recoup lost revenue and I can’t imaging this is going to work out well for them.
“Let’s make the content creators pay to make their content for us” has been the dumbest trend in the past few years
I use it to follow some art accounts but they usually also have a 2nd account somewhere else like DeviantArt or Pixiv.
Also the Progressbar account just tweeting how far along we are in the year.
Nothing of high value is lost.
No meaningfull comments were written like on Reddit, nobody uses it like imgur or gfycat so what purpose does it fill except doom scrolling?
They will? Or they’re considering it?
Two very very different things.
Not if the goal is to make sure their brand and Elon is in your feed again today and top of your mind.
