Ponzi scheme? 🤔

Twitter will start paying creators... if they pay Twitter first!

Elon Musk says that Twitter will share revenue with content creators *only if* they subscribe $8/month to Twitter Blue.

In other words, Twitter gets paid when they recruit enough suckers...err, "downline distributors".

This sounds a lot like Amway!

Or worse -- one of those shady crypto schemes!

Do not reply on Twitter.

To avoid funding those people who spew hate - Musk has made it if you counter their message you are funding their hate.

This is just another of a long move to remove actual speech and silence opposition to the right wing hate speech Musk favors.

Already speaking up results in a deluge of hate and stupidity, this will make it worse and embolden the worst to make the hottest takes/most hate.

So the CEO of online ads giant IAB made a pretty… remarkable speech, saying:

"These extremists (referring to privacy advocates) are political opportunists who’ve made it their mission to cripple the advertising industry and eliminate it from the American economy and culture."

And this, friends, is our mission statement RIGHT THERE.

Some people believe there's no purpose to "liking" something on Mastodon since it doesn't affect any algorithm.

Not the case.

It does something incredibly valuable: it acknowledges people.

Which is incredibly powerful, and is all the more important *because* it's not connected to gaming any algorithm.

By liking something on Mastodon, you are doing it honestly -- without any agenda at play other than that you like it.

So go ahead. Click that like button for its own sake.