according to Elon’s simps, you’re a ‘cheapskate’ unless you give the richest man in the world money every month for an emoji
@godpod well cover me in feathers and call me scrooge mcduck.
@godpod God please smite him I know you can do it
@godpod an👏🏾e👏🏾mo👏🏾ji👏🏾
@godpod How does one get verified on Mastodon? I'm told it's free
@OpenTangent @godpod This page explains how. It's basically proving you control the website (which can also be something like a blog) of the person you claim to be.
https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-verify-my-account/
How do I verify my account on Mastodon and the Fediverse? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

@beecycling @godpod So I have to pay hosting fees for a website I don't need for any other purpose in order to get a "free" check mark. Got it 👍
@OpenTangent @godpod You can do it on a free website (though it doesn't work on Google website.) or on a blog.

@godpod

I need value for my money, which this doesn't provide

@godpod
Sounds a lot like "billionaire" Trump's logic too.
@godpod I like my Mastodon checkmark.
@godpod And pay for the privilege of bringing people to his site. The value of Twitter is in its users, especially the old blue checks. The platform itself isn’t all that special. I mean, even Trump was able to build a few of them and the dude lost money on casinos.
@godpod the best thing you can do on the Twitter machine is #blocktheblue
@kbrandt @godpod The best thing you can do is not using this plattform.
@godpod Didn’t PT Barnum say “There’s an Elon simp born every minute”?
@godpod that stuff makes more sense if you replace the word pay with the word submit.
@godpod that will get them to pay!
@godpod
Geez it’s been three years since I stopped using Twitter. I don’t feel stressed out any more, from reading all the negative “opinions”.
Whether he runs it into the ground, which is not very likely, in the short term, given elron’s towering ego, and buckets of money, or it starts attracting wealthier advertisers, IDGAF
@godpod I only purchase items of value. This doesn’t apply.

@godpod If it started out that way, it probably would have been good. This has been agreed by most critics of modern social media. The ad-supported business model is probably the main reason why we had the race to the bottom of the brain stem in algorithms promoting knee-jerk toxic content.

However, with the damage already done and world changed, this is the worst-of-both-worlds, with unpaying subscribers still ad-monetised, and Musk himself addicted to the same merry-go-round.

@godpod He can buy his own bag of dicks, too.
@godpod The blue toxk on Twitter is pointless. Shall we call it a Noji??
@godpod What part about $96/year doesn't sound like a fair price for an emoji? Good luck getting two emojis for that little, demand is soaring!
@godpod We don't need no stinkin' badges!
@godpod better a cheap skate than a mule for a snake oil salesman.
@godpod the only thing more pathetic than Elon stans is Tate stans