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I don't use Twitter. What is the point of paying to hide a like instead of just...not pressing the like button?
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banned from Starbucks posted:I don't use Twitter. What is the point of paying to hide a like instead of just...not pressing the like button? Because some senators/republicans cant help themselves. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/tennessee-lt-gov-randy-mcnally-gay-instagram-1234694123/
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banned from Starbucks posted:...not pressing the like button? This is some sick twisted poo poo man.
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OgNar posted:Because some senators/republicans cant help themselves. Also see Ted Cruze and liking milf porn on twitter.
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Sep 15, 2023 22:11
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I think that he did that on 9/11, too.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Also see Ted Cruze and liking milf porn on twitter. Who knew I'd ever have anything in common with Ted Cruz.
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Sep 15, 2023 22:53
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I'm pretty sure the 'hide likes' thing only exists now because Elon liked some kind of weird porn or something and everyone noticed
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banned from Starbucks posted:I don't use Twitter. What is the point of paying to hide a like instead of just...not pressing the like button? I assume the person who made the post could still see you liked it, so you could still show support to your horrible bigoted pals without everyone else knowing. Protecting you from the woke mob who will cruelly cancel and criticise you just for your views and actions
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Sep 16, 2023 01:31
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a feature designed by and for foot fetishists
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Sep 16, 2023 01:32
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FlamingLiberal posted:I'm pretty sure the 'hide likes' thing only exists now because Elon liked some kind of weird porn or something and everyone noticed It's always weird the semantics that accrete around actions. Back when "like" was "*" I never hit it unless I wanted to be able to find something later. Then they changed it to  and I stopped thinking of it as a bookmark. When I hit , it can be any of "I like you", "I thought that was funny", "I'm sorry that bad thing happened to you", "Wow, that was interesting", and a bunch of other stuff. But I do put some personal weight on it; when I like something and then realize it was bad in some way, I go back and unlike it if it's easy to do so. So, yeah, means some sort of approval, and if you something about the Jews will not replace us, that is absolutely you endorsing it.
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Sep 16, 2023 02:04
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Having one button that can mean 'I'm sorry that bad thing happened to you' or 'I thought this was funny' shows we are truly in a golden age for communication
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Sep 16, 2023 05:38
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It means “here is some attention I have gifted you” and people receiving it feel good in different ways depending on the context.
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Sep 16, 2023 05:42
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And it sucks
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Sep 16, 2023 05:42
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I don't like liking things because I don't want the social media companies to know any more about me than they already do.
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Sep 16, 2023 05:58
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evilweasel posted:investors only tolerate that kind of stuff if the founder is regarded as competent instead of a burnout, and it is exceptionally rare historically, it's just a handful of tech companies had founders with the clout to do it at one moment in time because they, personally, were viewed as critical to the success of the company. I think we generally agree
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Sep 16, 2023 06:47
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Wayne Knight posted:It means “here is some attention I have gifted you” and people receiving it feel good in different ways depending on the context.
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An actual use case for the hidden like would be the person who runs Mr Beasts social media (aka huge accounts) could like posts of fans (followed by 10 people) made things or are just posting without bringing down a mob of bots on that person because the algorithm determines this post will have far outsized reach. Remember way back in the day when Conan had a contest to be a random fans friend? I think Penny Arcade had a kickstarter or something award where they would like a tweet E: it will be used to hide that you agree with nazis
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Sep 16, 2023 12:54
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OgNar posted:Because some senators/republicans cant help themselves. The smaller towns got the Randy McNally Encyclopedia salesmen...
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https://twitter.com/culturecrave/status/1703839660798292127?s=46 Oh, this for sure is going to kill Twitter if it ends up happening
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It will stamp out the bots in the same way that burning your house down gets rid of termites
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Sep 18, 2023 20:37
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How is he planning to charge for embeds? Or does that feature just go away
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Sep 18, 2023 20:38
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He’s not planning anything, he’s flying by the seat of his pants just posting whatever idiotic idea comes to mind without thinking it through at all.
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SgtSteel91 posted:https://twitter.com/culturecrave/status/1703839660798292127?s=46 Embed is already dead or post removed. Gotta add screenshots when it comes to TwiX posts
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Professor Moriarty posted:Embed is already dead or post removed. Gotta add screenshots when it comes to TwiX posts https://twitter.com/DaveLeeBBG/status/1703814998626111785
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Sep 18, 2023 20:52
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Charging money to use a website?!?
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Sep 18, 2023 20:57
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I really do wonder just how many accounts would go inactive if they required even just a one cent monthly fee.
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Sep 18, 2023 21:08
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I want this to be the last nail in the coffin, but I think it's still open by the feet.
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Sep 18, 2023 21:17
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Having to hand over any kind of payment details would immediately eliminate anyone who isn't already a blue check. A few of my friends still have accounts to follow stuff that hasn't migrated and I guarantee every single one of them would just be gone. Even if reading stays free and posting becomes paywalled, nobody worth a poo poo is going to bother.
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Sep 18, 2023 21:18
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Or perhaps more realistically, Elon openly and proudly announces that everyone gone must have been bots and continues to boast of his success as his 44 billion dollar purchase halves in value once again.
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Sep 18, 2023 21:23
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I unironically wish more websites did charge you to use them, because so many of the problems with the modern internet stems from the fact that a website's actual users are frequently not the true customers. This would probably involve major changes to how we use the internet, of course.
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Sep 18, 2023 21:24
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We're already paying to use twitter, Elon, you massive syphilitic cock. People provide their labour by viewing ads, which is a service that Twitter makes money on.
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They were making money on it, until all the respectable advertisers left Twitter after they fired their public relations team and replaced them with Tay the Nazi Chatbot.
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I think if they canned the ads, more people would be willing to pay a small amount of money for a Twitter account, to be fair.
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Nervous posted:I really do wonder just how many accounts would go inactive if they required even just a one cent monthly fee. i mean I'm not giving Elon my credit card number no matter how little he promises to charge it
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Rand Brittain posted:I unironically wish more websites did charge you to use them, because so many of the problems with the modern internet stems from the fact that a website's actual users are frequently not the true customers. Yeah, we need more rent seeking behavior in our lives. The web should be like streaming video, where every service wants 15 bux a month (and still shows ads)
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Family Values posted:Yeah, we need more rent seeking behavior in our lives. The web should be like streaming video, where every service wants 15 bux a month (and still shows ads) Its the new version of that tiered internet access image that floats around every time net neutrality comes up in any legislative body, except the money goes to media companies instead of internet providers. Wait, same thing. Silly me.
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Family Values posted:Yeah, we need more rent seeking behavior in our lives. The web should be like streaming video, where every service wants 15 bux a month (and still shows ads) Making stuff and charging you to use it isn't rent-seeking. The fact of the matter is that making stuff and putting it on the internet costs money, both directly in the form of bandwidth costs and programmer salaries, and indirectly through the fact that a lot of that content is coming from professionals who expect (or at least hope) to get paid for their work in some way. If we don't pay for it ourselves, then it's getting paid for by tech investors and advertising megaconglomerates, both of whom are funding it all to buy websites' complicity in squeezing us in all sorts of ways.
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Nervous posted:I really do wonder just how many accounts would go inactive if they required even just a one cent monthly fee. People get outraged when an app that they use every day charges $1, $3, $5 a year to use it, especially when it used to be free. $0.01 would prolly cause more outrage cause then you’d get the people saying “why not just make it free”. But it’ll surely generate a lot of news so… I expect Twitter to make this change the next time Musk has a story he wants to drown out.
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Whatever the 18th century woman pickled, it's giving that poor child leukemia
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