It’d be one thing if they were adding any more value or removing their marketing surveillance, but paying this much per month for a blue check mark is just bonkers.
Does anyone remember being around people, when you were a kid, that awarded you behavioral stickers that are holographic and had various shapes like stars or animals?
This is exactly what this stupid verification thing is about. OoOOOoO, I’m so special that I got a fucking checkmark next to my name and I actually spend money that could’ve gone to something else worthwhile just to keep it! /s
I feel like we’re in a world where all of these companies are fronted by childish adults that treat all of their userbases like these kinds of kids. But they pretend that they’re adults because they do business things.
I can understand why they are doing this, the programming require to roll out a feature like this is minimal, so even if they barely profit from it, if at all, they didn’t spend a lot of time on doing this feature, so, expect other platforms to soon follow.
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It’d be one thing if they were adding any more value or removing their marketing surveillance, but paying this much per month for a blue check mark is just bonkers.
Until they both lose money and users measurably from these changes, they will copy one another to chase every last cent.
Does anyone remember being around people, when you were a kid, that awarded you behavioral stickers that are holographic and had various shapes like stars or animals?
This is exactly what this stupid verification thing is about. OoOOOoO, I’m so special that I got a fucking checkmark next to my name and I actually spend money that could’ve gone to something else worthwhile just to keep it! /s
I feel like we’re in a world where all of these companies are fronted by childish adults that treat all of their userbases like these kinds of kids. But they pretend that they’re adults because they do business things.
Meta promised more exposure for my small business posts, didn’t deliver.
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Wait… They promised more exposure if you verified your account?
A broader audience: Reach more people across comments, search and recommendations.
Or so they claimed…
I mean, shows how these people think. You should pay for everything, even the natural stuff like identity.
Of course, if people are willing to pay, well…
People on Threads are still delusioned that it’s different from Twitter lol
The irony of this being posted on a reddit clone…
Why? Lemmy is not just a clone. It’s fundamental rework of the platform. With Threads it’s exactly the same thing just a different billionaire.
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Elon owns Twitter not Google. Not sure how you got into comparing Facebook with Google
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“available later this week” and they didn’t even bother including the price in the local currencies?
I can understand why they are doing this, the programming require to roll out a feature like this is minimal, so even if they barely profit from it, if at all, they didn’t spend a lot of time on doing this feature, so, expect other platforms to soon follow.