I hope this is the one thing that he actually follows through on. Drive a stake through it already
I really hope so too. I’m tired of Musk.
We all are. He sucks so much and looks like a dollar store Kathy Bates.
I'm trying to figure out if that's more insulting to Kathy Bates or Dollar Stores.
I wish Lemmy had keyword filters.
Edit: hmmm... Maybe the slur filter will work. Let's try.
The beauty of the Fediverse is that many tasks like this can be done by the client, as opposed to the actual base software.
For instance, Lemmy can't actually block instances or "subs" (or whatever the equivalent is) on an individual level, but Voyager can.
On another point, as much as I hate hearing about Musk and Twitter, they are both very powerful, and both have an impact on the world. Especially if Twitter were to become an "everything app" (AKA Superapp)(which it hopefully won't).
It probably won't, but it keeps Musk in the news.
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.
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!
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.
I'd rather pay for X than drop driver support for my GPU!
Can we just skip to the part where the servers get shut down? I'm so tired of hearing about this prick.
Nah, let's skip to the part where Musk tries to move them using cheap labour and a screwdriver.
Wait ... we already had that.
They will? Or they're considering it?
Two very very different things.
A service that I have to pay for AND it harvests and sells my personal data? SIGN ME UP!
If Musk wants me to use his shitty crap site, I will be charging him a small monthly fee.
At this point i think hes just mad he had to buy twitter and is just destroying it now.
Yes please.
BURN IT DOWN !
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.
“It’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots,” explained Musk.
Thanks Elon, you're gonna make it really easy for me to eventually move on
Nail. Coffin. Good riddance.
This will hurt the site so much. People will leave.
Don’t interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake
So great idea!
just die already! ;)
Elon is certainly working hard to kill it.
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
Blue tick users: We are already paying a fee
Elon: Yes, but what about a second fee? Premium tweets? Twitter awards?
I don’t think they’ve heard of second fee, Elon.
Since I left Twit-X, I've been feeling no sense of loss. Perhaps, a little smug in fact.
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.
It’ll get rid of bots…. And most other users
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.
"Let's make the content creators pay to make their content for us" has been the dumbest trend in the past few years
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.
The original article contains 498 words, the summary contains 148 words. Saved 70%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
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.
This is one of the least insain ideas and that's saying something
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