Why does he think these desperate attempts to drive people to twitter blue won’t just make them leave instead? Just go ahead and make it a subscription only site and see what happens.
Would you rather have 10 users paying nothing but taking up server space and bandwidth? Or would you prefer 1 paying user and 9 people leaving? In the short term, option B is a win-win.
And if that leads to Twitter becoming a dead husk of itself, oh well, that’s a problem for next quarter
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Why does he think these desperate attempts to drive people to twitter blue won’t just make them leave instead? Just go ahead and make it a subscription only site and see what happens.
Because the short-term equation is easy:
Would you rather have 10 users paying nothing but taking up server space and bandwidth? Or would you prefer 1 paying user and 9 people leaving? In the short term, option B is a win-win.
And if that leads to Twitter becoming a dead husk of itself, oh well, that’s a problem for next quarter