i (obviously) also want to see subscription models on social networks work but this really isn't it. i've said "don't trust anyone who wants to be The Next Twitter," i'm gonna follow that up with "don't trust anyone who thinks twitter is good."
honestly kind of a shame i deleted my twitter account because now i can't cyberbully matt mullenweg over this
I was suprised to look through the replies and see mostly everyone agreeing with matt instead of seeing someone saying he was dumb for it, until i remembered that twitter is prioritizing posts from blue subscribers now lol. Probably a bit of a bias there for this specific case
Since I no longer actually use Twitter I don't really have the time or reason to go and block every single person who pays for the blue checkmark, but I guess I can make an exception in this one case
BTW: Although I have no reason to doubt Mr. Mullenweg means what he says, I do wonder if Mullenweg has a business incentive to say and do this even if he in fact thinks this is silly. Look at Twitter's prior attempts to block operators and users of competing platforms like Mastodon and Substack. If you operate a Twitter competitor there's probably a rational benefit to going on Mr. Musk's network and intentionally buttering him up in hopes of your company getting preferential treatment
he quite directly says he wants to charge for Tumblr so i feel like that's your moral hazard right there.
i too want ppl to believe they should give me money, lol
I have never understood the "sure, the site is a disaster overrun with misinformation and horrible people, but if we walk away from it, then what?" They all act like giving money to the richest person's private blog of sycophants is taking a stand for social justice, because they met some fun people there a decade ago...
