blue checks think they are paying for a product but they are the product
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Another meme for you:
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Matt. Did you automate posting both on nostr and on Twitter or do you do it manually?
Thanks for your valuable content.
Recently, in an Italian podcast, a guest said, "You end up in hell by small compromises.
Paying to keep one's posts relevant in the timelines of one's followers is, in fact, playing into their hands. It would be more appropriate and effective to invest that money in developing a different means of communicating.
I agree with pretty much all of this except the bug part.
They’re being dealt an unfair hand in this whole freedom tirade.
They can be quite delicious.
agree surveillance takes hold thru progressive incentive structures but…
this is quite a vague logic leap. “If you cannot resist the temptation of the blue check in its current form you have already lost - what comes next will be much darker.”
again, curious what is the counter to all users lending legitimacy to twitter by virtue of using it at all? they are products too. Are blue checks really the target here?
Seems to me main stream social media platforms being subject to state capture and surveillance is the problem, the solution is not “shitting on blue checks” but rather building a competitive alternative and a better user experience
Elon got both the bluecheck-maxis and the pre-bluechecks fooled and rooting for him.
Complete owned by the fiat system but plays the role of self-made freedom advocate.
The fact that most people buy is frustrating.
"To those that do appreciate freedom, the concern is clear - WeChat has essentially become required to live in China, has surveillance and censorship integrated at its core, and if you are banned from the app your entire livelihood is at risk."
I think you're ultimately right, Matt. But, I don't think there's a master plan at play. Its just that every incremental step makes sense to X, but eventually leads to too many people subjugated by yet another way too powerful centralized entity.
Right now the incremental step is to monetize the one thing Twitter can sell (attention) to a new group of customers (used to be advertisers only, now also users).
This centralizing force is pervasive and inevitable, which is why you're 100% right that we need to consciously reject it.