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X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service::X owner Elon Musk today floated the idea that the social network formerly known as Twitter may no longer be a free site. In a live-streamed conversation

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[–] impiri@lemm.ee 218 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope this is the one thing that he actually follows through on. Drive a stake through it already

[–] demonquark@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I really hope so too. I’m tired of Musk.

[–] ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We all are. He sucks so much and looks like a dollar store Kathy Bates.

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I'm trying to figure out if that's more insulting to Kathy Bates or Dollar Stores.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I wish Lemmy had keyword filters.

Edit: hmmm... Maybe the slur filter will work. Let's try.

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The beauty of the Fediverse is that many tasks like this can be done by the client, as opposed to the actual base software.

For instance, Lemmy can't actually block instances or "subs" (or whatever the equivalent is) on an individual level, but Voyager can.

On another point, as much as I hate hearing about Musk and Twitter, they are both very powerful, and both have an impact on the world. Especially if Twitter were to become an "everything app" (AKA Superapp)(which it hopefully won't).

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True, but the clients are still in their infancy. Liftoff has no support for it as far as I know. Meanwhile, I have the luck of running my own instance, so if the filter fixes it, that would be great.

When I still used Twitter, I was very glad to be able to filter out Trump, otherwise I'd see half a dozen tweets about him per day. We're kinda heading there with removed on Lemmy now, and I really don't even want to spend the mental energy it takes to ignore it.

Edit: meh. Using the slur filter just replaces "removed" with "removed". Time to investigate some other clients I guess.

[–] iqwertyasdf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If you’re using Lemmy on iPhone, Memmy (application) provides this feature. It works pretty well