Turning Twitter into techno-feudalism would be the absolute funniest shit imaginable and I'm totally here for it. They really just went from "we need to abolish the lords and peasants blue check system" to "what if we made people pay for virtual real estate in order to have opinions"
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@malwaretech While I myself would never charge for social media service... to be honest, I'd buy into that... well not for twitter. But if it was a responsibly managed social media network that you had to pay to join and actually had everyone on it... yea id pay.
The way i see it someone always needs to pay. Which means they either steal your data, show ads, or rely on donations (which is a fancy way of saying being liked and popular). If paying meant that my data wasnt stolen, there were no ads, popularity wasnt the top concern... AND has the advantage of preventing spam and bots, something even the fediverse cant do..... hell yea sign me up.
