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SomethingAwful forums had a $10 signup fee 20 years ago, so this wouldn't be a groundbreaking development. As it is, there are private paid Discord channels apl
by rchaud 3y ago
SomethingAwful forums had a $10 signup fee 20 years ago, so this wouldn't be a groundbreaking development. As it is, there are private paid Discord channels aplenty.
Musk is talking about paywalls to deter bots, that's it. You've appended positive externalities to this, but I haven't heard him say anything about not monetizing the "user as product" business model.
It's been nearly a year after the paid tiers were set up. Realistically do you think New Twitter is going to last long enough to set the example you're hoping for?
- inglor_cz 3y ago"Realistically do you think New Twitter is going to last long enough to set the example you're hoping for?" I am afraid not. We are stuck in a thoroughly entshittified equilibrium. Everyone expects such services to be free and suck.
- 0xAFFFF 3y agoTo be fair, and I'm not saying it lightly because I despise Elon Musk, his rationale for pushing Twitter Blue in the first place was to reduce reliance on advertising revenue, so it's definitely a thing in his mind, even if it's not the main driver for a paywall.