"Richest man" now wants to charge everyone to make use of a social platform.. 
It's not to "block out the bots" because you do that with something called "moderation"
He only tries to improve the hole in his wallet because of a company he sunk into the ground
Luckily Mastodon is FREE OPEN source software 🤷
@peteriskrisjanis he's pretending to believe the only way to address the bot problem he caused (by firing the people in charge of banning hundreds of thousands of bots weekly) is to introduce a cheaper, but mandatory, subscription alongside Blue.
(never mind a solid fifth of the botspam I get on Twitter is from Blue verified accounts, so clearly scammers/spammers are more than prepared to pay $8/month to get better placement in replies and to bypass the default "Verified users only" DM privacy setting)
@stux what does twitter do that other sites don't do better? The userbase, of course.
By limiting the userbase like this he makes it worse
@stux as the #BBC have said, its something that may "just an off-the-cuff comment, or a signal of firmer plans that have yet to be announced."
We would much rather pay 8 quid a month in donations to use #Mastodon, knowing that mastodon is stable, easy to use and works with the social media tools (thus makes social media management much easier) without any bloat and know that the money isn't going into an offshore tax haven account.
#Mastodon certainly alines very well with #GreenParty values.
@stux Wonder if he’ll be asking for biometrics and other personal data from those “subscribers” too? Big data grab going on there. Glad to be here!
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