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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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[–] impiri@lemm.ee 205 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope this is the one thing that he actually follows through on. Drive a stake through it already

[–] demonquark@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I really hope so too. I’m tired of Musk.

[–] ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We all are. He sucks so much and looks like a dollar store Kathy Bates.

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

I'm trying to figure out if that's more insulting to Kathy Bates or Dollar Stores.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wish Lemmy had keyword filters.

Edit: hmmm... Maybe the slur filter will work. Let's try.

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[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 112 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It probably won't, but it keeps Musk in the news.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So many articles about what he's pondering or what he might do

How about we read about it when something actually changes

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 6 points 1 year ago

I only suggest to do your part in down voting clickbait.

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[–] jasondj@ttrpg.network 107 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

All the more reason to switch to Wayland.

[–] Blake@feddit.uk 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] grayman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] filister@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we just skip to the part where the servers get shut down? I'm so tired of hearing about this prick.

[–] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 17 points 1 year ago

Nah, let's skip to the part where Musk tries to move them using cheap labour and a screwdriver.

Wait ... we already had that.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They will? Or they're considering it?

Two very very different things.

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[–] Rayuza@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Fhek@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

Yes please.

BURN IT DOWN !

[–] iqwertyasdf@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A service that I have to pay for AND it harvests and sells my personal data? SIGN ME UP!

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

If Musk wants me to use his shitty crap site, I will be charging him a small monthly fee.

[–] AzureRT@reddthat.com 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] BitsAndBites@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Nail. Coffin. Good riddance.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

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

[–] unagi@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago

So great idea!

[–] LeaveITtoThePros@partizle.com 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ours@lemmy.film 9 points 1 year ago

Elon is certainly working hard to kill it.

[–] erranto@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blue tick users: We are already paying a fee

Elon: Yes, but what about a second fee? Premium tweets? Twitter awards?

[–] trachemys@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I don’t think they’ve heard of second fee, Elon.

[–] Gazumi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] NRay7882@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

The idea isn’t to get rid of bots. It’s to make money off them.

[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

It’ll get rid of bots…. And most other users

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

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.

[–] i2ndshenanigans@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] spacebirb@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

"Let's make the content creators pay to make their content for us" has been the dumbest trend in the past few years

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] vector_zero@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Very misleading title. Apparently floating an idea is now committing to implement a policy.

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[–] rglullis 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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@lemmy.film 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] Blinx615@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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