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mr_friend_computer t1_iuvyrho wrote

Thanks for reminding me to delete my twitter account. I keep forgetting to do it.

Seriously though - "we" are the products for media companies like twitter. They harvest our personal information and resell it, right? We know this. This is just additional revenue streaming for them. Why should I pay to be somebody's product? They don't provide a useful enough service for people like me to keep the service.

When that happens, the masses stop using it. You can have tons of followers, but if they are all bots because the masses have pretty much lefts, well... what do you really have at that point?

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fafefifof t1_iuwlj39 wrote

Well the whole point of the original post is to reverse that business model. Facebook as a free product led to us being the product by being dependent on publicity to create revenue. But if Facebook, or twitter, had proposed a paying service and proven a feasible business model from paying customers, we might’ve dodged this weird human-data-as-a-product clown ass model we’re stuck with at the moment

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mr_friend_computer t1_iuypzqj wrote

I get that, but it's going to end up as us paying to be human-data-as-a-product at this point.

I'd rather deprive the company of both sets of income in this case.

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zeptillian t1_iuz0tqg wrote

The point of the post is to point out just how infeasible that idea is.

5 billion in yearly revenue vs getting people to pay and earning 1.2 billion a year instead? I don't think so.

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