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You couldn’t pay me to use Twitter, the idea of paying them is absolutely hilarious

You wouldn't pay to use Twitter in its current form with its low-brow unmoderated discourse (and neither would I), but would you consider paying for an "improved" version of Twitter? Not saying Twitter Blue is that, but perhaps the promise of getting a Better Twitter can you give you pause for thought and a reach for your wallet?

The experiment of directly paid social media is worth trying out, in my opinion. I know paying a few bucks a month won't necessarily get you out of the privacy/ad-tech spiderweb, but if it get us a more robust control over what our social feed looks like, I think that alone makes it worth it.

But would you consider paying to use Mastodon, or one of the other open source alternatives?

Hopefully this makes it easier for them to support themselves.

I'd pay for HN to be honest. But just talking about society on the internet isn't really worth while to me. More people should focus on themselves.

I've long accepted no one cares about how I live my life. A friend of mine spends a ton of their good energy getting upset over the latest 'take' some influencer has. It's like getting upset over an episode of WWE Raw. In any case very very little of what other people do or believe has any direct affect on you.

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