Seth Abramson on X: “Get your things together and be ready to go”

I hate social media either way but it does seem problematic to have the vast majority public discourse moderated and controlled by one company.

https://myspace.com/

Incredible stuff.

One of the previous uses of twitter was "announcements". Government, corporate, emergency, community, software, etc.

The previous move to require logging in was already a massive blow to that, requiring a payment would decimate it was a use-case.

I don't see company's/governments putting announcements on a paid platform. You can't expect people to pay for twitter for announcements.

But putting aside the mental barrier that something that's always been free should now cost money.

I could maybe have been convinced to pay a small amount for access to 2010-2015 era Twitter.

The 2015-Elon era would have been a harder sell. The experience was going downhill before the acquisition. Not his fault. And also we'd become less naive about the effect of social media on our lives and on society. Being asked to pay would have triggered a reexamination of the necessity of social networking in my life that should have happened around then anyway.

But the idea of paying for what Twitter has turned into post-acquisition? Ask me again next week when I stop laughing.