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Not_Like_The_Movie t1_j96j7hh wrote

Reply to comment by mdkubit in Meta announces paid blue verification tick on Facebook and Instagram: Details by northmania

>If a pay wall exists, the vast majority of these people won't be spending money just to troll others, and the noise will drop off significantly.

We saw that this wasn't the case with the massive number of people paying 8 bucks to make fake verified accounts when Elon took over Twitter.

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BODYBUTCHER t1_j97evr8 wrote

That could also be the case of the novelty of it all and not what the actual trend would be

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mdkubit t1_j96op3f wrote

Well social media isn't going away, if a paywall doesn't work, there really isn't a solution beyond everyone adapting.

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GeneralZex t1_j97dpeg wrote

Because that $8 conferred “a benefit”. I dare say if someone had to pay money to use Facebook period they wouldn’t pay at all and social media would die pretty quickly.

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FoamGuy t1_j9bmujc wrote

>the massive number of people

Massive is a stretch, they just got a lot of media coverage.

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LeonBlacksruckus t1_j97m6xd wrote

This is just wrong. The number of bots on Twitter have dropped off significantly. Sure a few people changed their handle to exploit this but all in all it was a good choice.

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