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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

Are these new users in the room with us? lmao

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is just another attempt at establishing a new status quo for other social media before Twitter dies a death due to the insurmountable debt that Musk's purchase saddled it with. We've had a bunch of things tried, so far the only thing that stuck was charging for API access (which reddit soon adopted). Let's not have this as well, please.

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[–] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 months ago

tfw the free speech isn't even free monetarily

[–] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not a fan of him, nor a twitter user, but as far as free speech is concerned, that should mean your opinion is not censored, but the platform doesn't have to be free to use, but if it doesn't discriminate opinions, and everyone is allowed to make an account, and everyone has to pay the same

That's equal treatment, and isn't going against free speech.

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[–] Resol@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Free speech? More like free* speech

*Only $4.99/month, yeah, definitely "free"

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Meh, you still ise Twitter, you get what you deserve.

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Money is speech? This is clearly in-line with current US legal definitions so what's the problem?

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[–] penquin@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

My tracking app doesn't let this site load at all, so I didn't read the article, but fuck musk. Will he remove ads when people pay them? I forgot my password for Twitter since last year and never bothered to log back into that cesspool

[–] rsuri@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

"Unfortunately, a small fee for new user write access is the only way to curb the relentless onslaught of bots," Musk wrote on X.

...that makes no sense. By "bots" usually we mean accounts that advertise one thing or another to make money. And if there's any cause worth paying money for, it's making more money. But some sports fan or BTS stan or whatever just wanting to cheer on their thing is just gonna stop posting.

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[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Didn't he say this like 5 times already

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