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Re:X/Twitter will begin charging new users $1 a year to acce... by gdulli on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @07:52PM (#37923117)
There's a difference between the idea of paying for a service in the abstract, and paying for one that's past its prime and has gone through extreme enshittification. Would I pay this much for 2015 Twitter? Sure.
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Re:X/Twitter will begin charging new users $1 a year to acce... by pard68 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @08:14PM (#37923319)
Sure at a value level, but it's still setting a precedence and making the way. I could see small time Mastadon operators getting more traction for charging a nominal fee for running an account.

A lot of great ideas have come from companies that the idea killed (Xerox comes to mind).

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