As reported over on the bird site: "If you don’t pay the $8 your tweets will be suppressed by an algorithm. Not making this shit up [Musk] said it to a room of investors yesterday & claimed this would solve hate speech. 'You’ll have to scroll really far to see unverified users'" https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588876465915166721
Me: So the only tweets we'll see will come from ugly women with puffy lips and enormous butts who are posting links for nude photos. That, along with bitcoin and companies selling mail-order weed.
Ben Collins: "“He thinks the bots won’t pay money, so anyone without a blue mark will be a bot, in his logic,” a Twitter employee who is still at the company told me." https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1588643047146823680
Me: The truth? Real people won't pay $8 for something they used to get for free. Bots with something to sell will. It's the best $8 investment they can make.
@John_Scotus
Yes. We'll be considered "bots and trolls." 🙄
@John_Scotus if i had a choice between twitter and here, I would put the 8 into here.
i am a patreon here and I put 5 into this after seeing how hard J3ST3R works off his buns on this.
People with money and power can be free speech absolutes, because they know they will be heard. But others, not so much. And if the words of the powerful hurt others, good luck trying to make your case known.
"This wrecks twitter. In his own words caught on camera “you won’t really see’ what your friends are posting - even in your own replies - if they don’t pay for it.
His genius idea is shadowbanning free users?? 😹" https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588939778439139328