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I would have expected Meta to have learned by Elons mistakes but I was just asked if I want to subscribe for a blue tick to verify my account to make my followers feelnsafer (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by eggshappedegg@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] gapbetweenus@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elon managing to collect monthly fee for basically a jpeg, is definitely not worst of his business moves.

[–] Risk@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dunno, it delegitimised the usefulness of Twitter somewhat. Now you can't be certain that the NASA account that announces an apocalyptic asteroid is real or not.

[–] gapbetweenus@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Long term effects are really of no concern for modern CEOs, that's not exclusive to Elon that is modus operandi.

[–] s08nlql9@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

are tech companies doing this now-paid-but-was-free-for-a-long-time service because they know their company is failing (or soon to fail), so they are trying to accumulate as much money as they can before sh*t hits the fan?

[–] _s10e@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Why not both?