Nothing wrong with making a living, but I don't visit Twitter every day to see streams of advertisements any more than I watch YouTube so I can see the ads. I don't mind seeing occasional ads or asks or self-promotion, but when the self-promotion drowns out the useful content I unfollow.

> if you don't pay them to produce the stuff you like, either they will stop doing it, or turn to shady crap like whatever this BitClout thing is, NFTs, or just spyware advertising.

What a cynical take. "Pay me or I'll advertise spyware!" It doesn't work like that. I use Twitter as a social network to communicate with people, not to be pitched products I don't want.

I'm not asking for free stuff, I just want a decent signal to noise ratio and some honest conversations.