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
All the more reason to switch to Wayland.
This is fucking hilarious, the fact that this is so upvoted really tells you how geeky Lemmy is though!
I’d rather pay for X than drop driver support for my GPU!
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.
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I am in need of an explanation, Captain.
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.
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I hope this is the one thing that he actually follows through on. Drive a stake through it already
At this point i think hes just mad he had to buy twitter and is just destroying it now.
This will be the final nail in the coffin. If it was already $1 and they made it $5, that would be less of a problem than free moving to $0.01. As soon as they start charging people need to be OK with giving Twitter their credit card number. Even if they trust them with that, there is still the issue of getting people to actually go through the process.
While I pay for a search engine, when there are free options, I’m not sure what Twitter is offering here to make people care enough.
Which search engine?
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.
Yes please.
BURN IT DOWN !
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 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
Elon has made so many terrible changes to Twitter. I’m happy to be out and migrate to Mastodon and WireMin since last December. Using Mastodon to track up to date news and WireMin to stay connected with a few friends who also left Twitter.
Now I just look at Twitter like it’s the house burning down across the street.
just die already! ;)
Elon is certainly working hard to kill it.
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.
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.
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?
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.
He still shows ads to Twitter blue subscribers, of course he would keep showing them to everyone if he charged them
Lol but it will still be owned by Elon so I’m out.
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.
Far easier than cleaning up your site and getting advertisers to come back. Lazy Elon.
Blue tick users: We are already paying a fee
Elon: Yes, but what about a second fee? Premium tweets? Twitter awards?
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.
