Not sure which platform we’re talking about but on nostr you can be identified too. It’s less about being anon and more about not easily censored because one app or company disagrees with what you have to say.
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I am referring to Elon's plan to require a small credit card payment for new accounts.
Yes, it is close to impossible to hide in cyberspace, but there is a difference between being identified through surveillance versus volunteering your government issued identification.
I think that whole deal is more about conditioning people to pay, even a small amount, until asked for more. I highly doubt it has anything to do with bots. Some might say it’s to gather IDs - which could be true as well but I’m not sure what the “market” for that looks like. Plenty of other ways to find IDs like leaked credit scores. Twitter audience isn’t even that big compared to other platforms. I’m inclined to believe it’s for conditioning.
Elon is trying to make a business of it. That’s what Twitter really is. We learned a lot what we are looking for as a society and I am hoping we can do that with #nostr
Yes bots are total strawman. Also agree with getting people to pay. But that just happens to come with positive government identification, and I refuse to believe anything like that is simple happenstance. There is a huge difference psychologically as well as in courts, in terms of acceptable engagement of authority, when dealing with positive government identification versus identification obtained through surveillance.
Well, Elon didn't actually want a shitposting site when he bought a shitposting site, he wanted some sort of "everything"/banking app.
I dunno why he thinks buying a shitposting site and trying to turn it into a banking app is a good plan, but it will indeed lead to KYC of every user, or maybe moving the company to a new country at least.
His stated motivations when buying it were to protect free speech. Then he bait and switched it to WeChat of the West. Anyways, it's his platform, he can do what he wants with his captured user base.
Well, he may think he can do what he wants with the users but the rate the users are leaving might indicate otherwise.
It's emptying as quickly as Myspace did when Murdoch bought it.
I delete mine within weeks.
He definitely lost me too, and the popping up of so many twitter alternatives (most of them centralized, lol) seems to indicate you may be right about users leaving. As an aside, I think the alternatives are all doing it wrong, trying to recreate twitter without the benefit of established network effect. Nostr has a better shot because "twitter-alternative" is just one use case.