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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

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

  • impiri@lemm.eeEnglish
    231·
    2 年前

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

        • SinningStromgaldEnglish
          10·
          2 年前

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

          • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
            1·
            2 年前

            True, but the clients are still in their infancy. Liftoff has no support for it as far as I know. Meanwhile, I have the luck of running my own instance, so if the filter fixes it, that would be great.

            When I still used Twitter, I was very glad to be able to filter out Trump, otherwise I’d see half a dozen tweets about him per day. We’re kinda heading there with removed on Lemmy now, and I really don’t even want to spend the mental energy it takes to ignore it.

            Edit: meh. Using the slur filter just replaces “removed” with “removed”. Time to investigate some other clients I guess.

        • iqwertyasdfEnglish
          1·
          2 年前

          If you’re using Lemmy on iPhone, Memmy (application) provides this feature. It works pretty well

  • JacktheladEnglish
    1251·
    2 年前

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

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      23·
      2 年前

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

      How about we read about it when something actually changes

    • hyperhopper@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      2 年前

      But people keep talking about it and upvoting it. Please just downvote the musk spam. This isn’t even about Twitter/x, it’s just musk rambling.

    • Blake [he/him]@feddit.ukEnglish
      35·
      2 年前

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

    • graymanBanned from communityEnglish
      92·
      2 年前

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

      • filisterEnglish
        181·
        2 年前

        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.

      • UnkendEnglish
        31·
        2 年前

        deleted by creator

        • ram@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          2 年前

          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.

          • UnkendEnglish
            11·
            2 年前

            deleted by creator

  • IchNichtenLichtenEnglish
    643·
    2 年前

    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.ovhEnglish
      20·
      2 年前

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

      Wait … we already had that.

  • ObiniceEnglish
    50·
    2 年前

    They will? Or they’re considering it?

    Two very very different things.

  • iqwertyasdfEnglish
    31·
    2 年前

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

    • btaf45BannedEnglish
      6·
      2 年前

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

  • RayuzaEnglish
    30·
    2 年前

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

            • Ejh3kEnglish
              2·
              2 年前

              I looked into it, and I am definitely interested. Do you have the unlimited plan? Because I 100% would burn through the other plans very quickly.

    • rockstarpirateEnglish
      8·
      2 年前

      “It’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots,” explained Musk.

        • rockstarpirateEnglish
          6·
          2 年前

          Yeah that’s true. The headline is asserting something that I don’t think Musk has actually said he will do. On the other hand, I’m having trouble thinking of any random idea Musk has had that he didn’t attempt to follow through on.

      • WHYAREWEALLCAPSEnglish
        1·
        2 年前

        Not if they’re funded by deep pockets like with governments and corporations.

  • Sume@reddthat.comEnglish
    241·
    2 年前

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

    • MeanEYEEnglish
      4·
      2 年前

      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.

  • xc2215xEnglish
    21·
    2 年前

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

  • errantoEnglish
    16·
    2 年前

    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

      • errantoEnglish
        4·
        2 年前

        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