• Ludo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why does he think these desperate attempts to drive people to twitter blue won’t just make them leave instead? Just go ahead and make it a subscription only site and see what happens.

    • zoostation@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Because he’s been fucking them for 6 months and they haven’t left.

      I did, and some others have. But most people are still sitting there on his platform, whining about how shitty it is, while keeping him in power by staying.

    • Tar_alcaran@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Because the short-term equation is easy:

      Would you rather have 10 users paying nothing but taking up server space and bandwidth? Or would you prefer 1 paying user and 9 people leaving? In the short term, option B is a win-win.

      And if that leads to Twitter becoming a dead husk of itself, oh well, that’s a problem for next quarter