Re:Ask HN: What happened to Twitter poison pill?
by inglor_cz on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @08:31AM
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"I want a good service and cheap (i.e. free) with no ads."
I feel this is unrealistic. What other services are good, free and ad-free? Very few. Someone has to pay for the development cost and the upkeep, and that someone will be calling the shots.
I much prefer a "democratic" system where as a customer I pay certain amount of money for using Twitter (say, 5 dollars a month) and get a vote on future changes to a system where I am a free "user / consumer" (and a product at the same time) and some shadowy entity manipulates everything it can to its own non-public purposes.
In order to turn just a little bit more civil, Twitter needs citizens, not users/consumers. And citizens usually have to pay some tax for the system to be sustainable.
I feel this is unrealistic. What other services are good, free and ad-free? Very few. Someone has to pay for the development cost and the upkeep, and that someone will be calling the shots.
I much prefer a "democratic" system where as a customer I pay certain amount of money for using Twitter (say, 5 dollars a month) and get a vote on future changes to a system where I am a free "user / consumer" (and a product at the same time) and some shadowy entity manipulates everything it can to its own non-public purposes.
In order to turn just a little bit more civil, Twitter needs citizens, not users/consumers. And citizens usually have to pay some tax for the system to be sustainable.