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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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This is one of the least insain ideas and that’s saying something
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
What?
it’s an old copypasta. 2007, so it even predates the Navy Seal pasta.
At this point i think hes just mad he had to buy twitter and is just destroying it now.
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.
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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.
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?“Let’s make the content creators pay to make their content for us” has been the dumbest trend in the past few years
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.
All the more reason to switch to Wayland.
I’d rather pay for X than drop driver support for my GPU!
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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.
I am in need of an explanation, Captain.
This is fucking hilarious, the fact that this is so upvoted really tells you how geeky Lemmy is though!
What is wayland? How is it different than Mastodon if a Twitter replacement?
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.
How does wayland avoid X fees?
There are no X11 fees, this is a joke about X=X11 and not X=Twitter
The X11 fee is having to contend with Xwayland for years to come
Not at all. That’s the joke.
Far easier than cleaning up your site and getting advertisers to come back. Lazy Elon.
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.
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.
Nail. Coffin. Good riddance.
just die already! ;)
Elon is certainly working hard to kill it.
Nobody saw this coming. Ever. Not even once. 🙄
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
If you can’t pay you can watch some ads every time you login.
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
Thanks Elon, you’re gonna make it really easy for me to eventually move on
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.
Since I left Twit-X, I’ve been feeling no sense of loss. Perhaps, a little smug in fact.
