You’ll have to pay to be able to use XPro.
  • Sean@lemmy.thesanewriter.com
    643·
    1 year ago

    So fucking happy I deleted twitter. At this point it’s just a horse race to see which site dies faster reddit or twitter.

    • Ricaz@lemmy.ml
      618·
      1 year ago

      Stop kidding yourselves… Reddit isn’t dying. It’s growing.

      0.5% of users turned to Lemmy while the rest bent over.

      • DragonAce@lemmy.ml
        231·
        1 year ago

        But regardless, given all the media hype around the protests, Reddit DID take a hit to its reputation overall. I’m sure there is a not insignificant number of people still on Reddit who would jump ship were an acceptable alternative available to take its place. I still believe that as Lemmy grows, more content gets created, and the various UIs and Apps used to access increases, people will slowly move over. Spez is looking to monetize the fuck out of Reddit too, so all corporate social media sites are now heading towards some sort of paid model. I don’t know about you, but I don’t know many people willing to pay for access to a shitty social media site, be it twitter or reddit.

        • Ricaz@lemmy.ml
          288·
          1 year ago

          No, I don’t think there is a “not insignificant” number of people who would jump ship. We’re literally just a few nerds who dislike the monolithic corporate structure and care about privacy. Stop pretending the whole world is in the same boat. It’s turning into a weird tinfoil conspiracy.

          It’s fine that we like it here, and I’m glad that we have an alternative, but people need to wake up and realize this isn’t some huge activist movement where we’re pwning “the man”. They don’t give two shits about these dumbass protests. They will do whatever necessary to continue growing and earning money. So stop giving a shit about them, stop talking about reddit, and just be happy users have the power with Lemmy.

      • midorale@lemmy.villa-straylight.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        You can’t easily beat volume. I think people like to compare this to Digg’s death, but the Internet was much smaller back then and how many normal people even knew about Digg?

        • Ricaz@lemmy.ml
          3·
          1 year ago

          I was never really on Digg, even though I was on the Internet since the early 00’s, but yeah, everything dies eventually.

          Can’t think of anything aside from some obscure message boards that still exist today.

        • Ricaz@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          Reddit could suffer a 50% user drop and still make bank, but that won’t happen within the decade.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    X, the social network formally known as Twitter, appears to be finally following through on its promise to make TweetDeck a paid service.

    Many users on X, including social media consultant Matt Navarra, say that they’re seeing a sales page for X Premium (the subscription formerly Twitter Blue) when they try to load up TweetDeck, which is technically now called XPro.

    A few of us at The Verge haven’t run into the block yet, but given how many people are saying that they can’t access XPro unless they pay, we’re guessing it’s only a matter of time.

    It said at the time that the transition would happen “in 30 days,” so the company missed its own deadline by just a bit.

    Under owner Elon Musk, X has tried to make X Premium a more enticing subscription with additions like longer posts, formatting, ad revenue sharing, and higher rankings in conversations and search — now, the company is hoping that access to XPro is worth paying for a blue checkmark.

    TweetDeck was one of the most popular third party apps for accessing Twitter until the company acquired it in 2011.

    I’m a bot and I’m open source!