can you grab the plain text from that link? Content stuck behind the sites paywall.
Charging $1 a year to Tweet and Retweet may not seem like a lot, however optics matter. It sets the stage to charge more in the future, it makes the service no longer free, and most importantly, it makes Twitter no longer the public square where anyone is able to freely talk - a point in which Elon likes to state, but continues to erode.
While on the NOSTR we happily Zap developers more than $1 worth of sats quite often and some could agree that it's a similar task to paying a measily 4000 sats, it's not. It's not a requirement. It's not forced. The NOSTR is completely free and open. The openness is the difference. The NOSTR is the public square.
https://fortune.com/2023/10/17/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet/
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thank you Derek!
Elon: “It’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots.”
Paying customer:
Solving bots is easy: New users by invite only.
Existing user vouches for a new user. If that user is a bot, the bot account AND the user who invited it get banned. So invite carefully! System becomes self-policing and no KYC.
Many ways to solve bots. Nostr has nip5 for example. Xitter is not earnestly trying to solve the bot problem. They need it to sell KYC
precisely and with the way governments are extending their reach to control the information on social media it's just an excuse to get your information for the nospeech police.