I think they’re trying to push people to pay for Twitter Blue. They haven’t made an announcement about this yet, so I’m wondering if it will be announced as a “feature” only for subscribers. Otherwise this doesn’t make sense, because it will severely limit the use of embedded and shared tweets.
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nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx has already called it - Musk is gonna ramp up ID requirements to “fight spam” and people will willingly self-identify for access.
I’ll be falling back to #nostr but Odell is right. They want IDs for speech tracking + X financial app.
Wait til Elon tries to sell people on the Western WeChat he’s allowed to run all based on fiat. That may be the tipping point for people to opt out of the system en masse.
No doubt some people would leave but many will stay either because they like it, or because they’ve locked themselves and their content/brand into the platform so much that leaving would be a financial hit to them. Now is the time to leave and build your brand and identity on open systems.
For sure mate, many will stay and even upgrade to do so.
But look at the laws coming in Aus. People aren’t gonna pay $19 to be IDed and then censored by the government on Twitter *for long*.
Don’t get me wrong, they will fall in at first, but when a few clips get posted of Police coming to ask about posts like we had under Covid here, and a few get banned regardless of Blue subscriptions and a few go to jail eventually like in the UK but all on a much shorter timeline - the model will not sustain.
Things are speeding up. This might be one of the first big shifts we see.