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Re: Twitter Twitches

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Post by skiman10 »

twic wrote: post #7

> I still am baffled by the degree of refusal to pay. I share the instinct to avoid subscriptions. This still seems like a clear case where heavy users should make an exception. If there was a nice little local square you liked to go to, to hang out and chat with your friends, and then some jerk, some world-class jerk, bought the square, and made all sorts of heavy-handed unnecessary changes that made it a shitty pla…

It's all so exhausting. I just want to go back to the little local square of a decade ago.

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Post by brucethemoose2 »

jug6ernaut wrote: post #9
brucethemoose2 wrote: post #3

> the humiliation of considering paying for Twitter to scroll my addiction is giving me a smidge of empathy for the bros who pay for sex I think this is a really important point for Twitter's business. Many users know, subconsciously or consciously, that they use Twitter too much or in an unhealthy way. Explicity paying for it would make the problem feel real. I personally went through this conundrum with Discord, an…

> I personally went through this conundrum with Discord, and had to delete the apps. What were you using Discord for? Were you using it for more than personal voice chat with friends?

Yeah, I am in dozens of discords for game mods, tv shows, github projects, niche technical topics and so on.

Even with notifications disabled, the draw to check up ob Discord and then start shooting the breeze is strong... Its very engaging, but inefficient and rarely productive

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Post by rsynnott »

Oh, I see. For a moment, I thought the latest thing was that it had decided to become a Twitch competitor. You get to stream 6 minutes of games a day!

Re: Twitter Twitches

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Post by jacooper »

twic wrote: post #7

> I still am baffled by the degree of refusal to pay. I share the instinct to avoid subscriptions. This still seems like a clear case where heavy users should make an exception. If there was a nice little local square you liked to go to, to hang out and chat with your friends, and then some jerk, some world-class jerk, bought the square, and made all sorts of heavy-handed unnecessary changes that made it a shitty pla…

Also paying for a subscription and still getting ads is just ridiculous.
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