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Cultural_Hope ,
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Far easier than cleaning up your site and getting advertisers to come back. Lazy Elon.

possiblylinux127 ,

This is one of the least insain ideas and that’s saying something

funkless_eck ,

they need to do way instain with ceos> who kill thier own prodduct becuse the product cant frihgt back it was on the news this mroing a ceo in ca who kill his three prodduct. they are taking the three prodduct back to nationalization too ceo to rest my pary are with the end users who lost their social media; i am truley sorry for your lots

Hype ,

What?

funkless_eck ,

it’s an old copypasta. 2007, so it even predates the Navy Seal pasta.

Rayuza ,

At this point i think hes just mad he had to buy twitter and is just destroying it now.

rglullis , (edited )
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Look, we can hate Twitter and Musk all we want, but (a) the headline is absurdly false and (b) charging small amounts from every user instead of having an ad-funded business is probably the most honest and fair way to have a healthy internet and I for one would welcome the change. If Twitter becomes paid-only and removes all advertising and tracking (that’s the the big if) it can find its way to become the only sustainable and (dare I say?) ethical social media network around.

I strongly believe that a lot of the decline in the quality of civic debate and the increasing polarization of our society is unhealthy and can be traced back to the point where online media started depending on “eyeballs” and advertisers. (Don’t believe me? Just check the headline and read the article, now see how it outright LIED in the headline to make you click). Every news media channel became more and more tabloid-like in a desperate attempt to keep their viewership numbers, quantity over quality became the norm and everything became a “market audience” segmented to perform well to specific editorial guidelines.

To have meaningful change and actual progress, we need to have a healthy media that is focused on pursuing the truth. The current landscape is just a popularity contest. If people are able to vote with their wallets and if they become more than just a number , the people holding the megaphones will win more by paying attention to us than by treating us as cattle who can be milked out.

lingh0e ,

charging small amounts from every user instead of having an ad-funded business is probably the most honest and fair way to have a healthy internet

I agree, but wouldn’t you think it’s far more likely that they would charge small amounts from every user AND have an ad-funded business?

rglullis ,
@rglullis@communick.news avatar

This is why I am not holding my hopes up for Twitter, but I do believe that the Fediverse can work because we can have many different small service providers that would all compete for its customers, and not having ads would be definitely an advantage.

ReveredOxygen ,
@ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works avatar

He still shows ads to Twitter blue subscribers, of course he would keep showing them to everyone if he charged them

Blinx615 ,

Lol but it will still be owned by Elon so I’m out. He draws the wrong crowd.

erranto ,

I will believe it when I see it.

Let’s not forget that more than half of its user base don’t have access to online payment. so I don’t know how they are planning on keeping them

driving_crooner ,
@driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br avatar

If you can’t pay you can watch some ads every time you login.

erranto ,

How is that going to allegedly stop bots ? they can be made to load the ad and then keep browsing … just another attempt at raising revenue

LeaveITtoThePros ,

just die already! ;)

ours ,

Elon is certainly working hard to kill it.

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    Sir_Simon_Spamalot ,

    Isn’t Mastodon enough?

    Mesaji ,

    Hard to get interaction.

    Sir_Simon_Spamalot ,

    Even harder than this WireMin thing?

    Mesaji ,

    Its better for me, but it might not be for you?

    Sir_Simon_Spamalot ,

    I mean… I never even heard of it up to now, and I’m quite active on fediverse.

    Mesaji ,

    Me too, its just sometime fediverse still got censorship.

    AzureRT ,
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    Thanks Elon, you’re gonna make it really easy for me to eventually move on

    MeanEYE ,
    @MeanEYE@lemmy.world avatar

    I did that last night. The place has turned into cesspool anyway. My account was there just to watch the shitstorm develop but sure as hell it’s not that interesting for me to pay anything to him.

    jasondj ,

    All the more reason to switch to Wayland.

    ram ,
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    Unkend ,

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/890f1d8d-31e8-4648-92fb-c8342f657070.mp4

    OhTheMoose ,

    I am in need of an explanation, Captain.

    ram ,
    @ram@lemmy.ca avatar

    My mistake, I figured it was easy enough to confuse X as in Twitter with X as in several dozen other tech and tech-adjacent projects.

    Unkend ,

    wayland.social/explore

    Blake , (edited )

    This is fucking hilarious, the fact that this is so upvoted really tells you how geeky Lemmy is though!

    Immersive_Matthew ,

    What is wayland? How is it different than Mastodon if a Twitter replacement?

    filister ,

    Both X11 and Wayland are competing display server protocols in the Linux ecosystem.

    X11 is the old version that is now slowly abandoned in favour of Wayland, but still there are things like Nvidia with their proprietary drivers that run better under X11.

    Hence the word play.

    Immersive_Matthew ,

    How does wayland avoid X fees?

    Amir ,
    @Amir@lemmy.ml avatar

    There are no X11 fees, this is a joke about X=X11 and not X=Twitter

    isVeryLoud ,

    The X11 fee is having to contend with Xwayland for years to come

    oKtosiTe ,
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    Not at all. That’s the joke.

    grayman ,

    I’d rather pay for X than drop driver support for my GPU!

    bob_wiley ,
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    Ejh3k ,

    Which search engine?

    bob_wiley ,
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    Ejh3k ,

    Why?

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    Ejh3k ,

    I looked into it, and I am definitely interested. Do you have the unlimited plan? Because I 100% would burn through the other plans very quickly.

    Gazumi ,

    Since I left Twit-X, I’ve been feeling no sense of loss. Perhaps, a little smug in fact.

    Fhek ,

    Yes please.

    BURN IT DOWN !

    zerbey ,

    Right now it’s an idea, but Musk’s ideas tend to become reality more often than not. I already stopped Twitter, they do this I’ll be gone for good.

    obinice ,
    @obinice@lemmy.world avatar

    They will? Or they’re considering it?

    Two very very different things.

    Immersive_Matthew ,

    Not if the goal is to make sure their brand and Elon is in your feed again today and top of your mind.

    xc2215x ,

    This will hurt the site so much. People will leave.

    unagi ,

    So great idea!

    sebinspace ,

    Don’t interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake

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