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Will you be willing to pay for using Twitter? (variety.com)

submitted 1 year ago by t4k3@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Elon Musk said he will charge all X/Twitter users a fee to be on the platform. He suggested that such a change would be necessary to deal with the problem of bots on the platform.

“It’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots," said Elon. I can’t believe that this is the only solution he can think of.

Dealing with bots would be Elon Musk’s responsibility, considering he’s the only one profiting significantly from X, not us. Elon Musk steals our data and censors each of our posts, now he even expects us to pay to clean up the mess he created.

Plus, the problems with X go beyond just bots. The algorithm and programming decisions are negatively impacting user experience and manipulating people’s minds.

We want a town square where everyone is free to have & voice an opinion. I do not believe we have to pay ”a small monthly payment” for such a place, especially in a country that should value these freedoms & suppressing ideas.

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[–] Tsunami45chan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I hate Musk because as an artist there are many artist on twitter (X) that I really like. One of it is Naoki Saito & Mika Pikazo and then some useful things likes pose maniac to help out artist to get pose ideas. A lot of Japanese makes oneshot or it's continuous story manga on twitter. The reason why I stay a little longer because of the artist of twitter but now I will slowly drift away on twitter.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

They should at least be double posting to Twitter and Mastodon.

You don't lose reach by posting to more places.

[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could check out Misskey, another mastodon-like fediverse app with a large Japanese userbase and lots of artists

[–] Tsunami45chan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for telling me this and I will try it out.