I think they're being overly optimistic here. This will only keep up if musky boi truly sinks twitter, but if all he does is kicks out the "trendsetting"(lmao) "moderation" and actually enforce their own TOS I think twitter will be just fine
I’ve just subscribed to Twitter Blue and aside from the extra features, I have a lot of confidence that if others do this, we’ll have a more robust and civil platform.
$8/m/bot is a lot compared to $0.
> The rest of us don't basically give a fuck
Not very convincing given the amount of giving a fuck lots of people seem to be doing. Including some pretty dumb people (yet verified...) who straight up tweet that their problem with the idea is that "it won't be special anymore".
If you and your non-paying friends are commenting on each other's tweets, I don't know how oppressed you would be by blue checks floating to the top of threads. Are there tons of blue checks in your threads now?
In case somebody needs an existence proof, I'd prefer blue checks rising to the top. It would cut down on 99% of abuse if 20x<firstname><bunchofnumbers> couldn't get anywhere near the top of the thread. If blue checks also got the ability to prioritize the the people they follow (or a separate priority reply list, rather than using their follows), we might see some civilized discussion without all the brownshirt disruption.
This would absolutely panic the administration, and the intelligence and military communities, though (and probably a lot of PR agencies) so I don't see it happening.
But then, his enemies also flip their position all the time, synchronized to always be against what he's doing lol.
Ofc _somehow_ moderating "hate speech" and so on is still not enough. Unclear why.