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What [ad] platform pays on anything but clicks?
There's CPM (cost per mille [thousand]) and CPA (cost per action) too. Twitter has CPA ads: https://business.twitter.com/en/help/campaign-setup/create-a... https://business.twitter.com/en/help/campaign-setup/create-a... https://business.twitter.com/en/help/campaign-setup/create-a...
Also, can we get people to stop to confuse whatever weird things happen on Twitter with all the internet and all the economy?
> Elon’s political antics chased away a lot of good people. Many of my favorite follows have moved to Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Also, more and more people are waking up and realizing that social media is actually quite bad for you, and leaving it behind. Good for them. Bad for me. It's common to blame the move from Twitter on Elon's politics. And that's perfectly valid. I moved away for a much simpler reason. H…
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To be fair, that's because he leveled the playing field that was tilted in favor of the elite establishment consensus. They aren't supportive of a platform with free speech. ie, speech one disagrees with. Team Establishment was happy when it censored opposing viewpoints and it's no surprise, although unfortunate, they migrated to regressive platforms where that still occurs.
> To be fair, that's because he leveled the playing field that was tilted in favor of the elite establishment consensus. Do you really believe this? Anyway, most of the people I follow left because of the terrible people and bots, sooooo many bots, clogging up their timeline with right wing nonsense.
Bots don't help of course, but the presence of bots doesn't preclude the tilted playing field.
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> To be fair, that's because he leveled the playing field that was tilted in favor of the elite establishment consensus. Do you really believe this? Anyway, most of the people I follow left because of the terrible people and bots, sooooo many bots, clogging up their timeline with right wing nonsense.
Why not believe it if it's true? Twitter was systematically working with the government to ban people they (and sometimes by weird comedy of errors, also Russian FSB) want to ban. They were also systematically banning and suppressing people expressing opinions disfavored by the elite consensus. Bots don't help of course, but the presence of bots doesn't preclude the tilted playing field.
That’s still happening. But what does that have to do “elite consensus”?
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Why not believe it if it's true? Twitter was systematically working with the government to ban people they (and sometimes by weird comedy of errors, also Russian FSB) want to ban. They were also systematically banning and suppressing people expressing opinions disfavored by the elite consensus. Bots don't help of course, but the presence of bots doesn't preclude the tilted playing field.
> Why not believe it if it's true? Twitter was systematically working with the government to ban people they (and sometimes by weird comedy of errors, also Russian FSB) want to ban. That’s still happening. But what does that have to do “elite consensus”?
Same reason why Wikipedia contributors do not want to be paid, and why cryptocurrency-based wikis failed. Money is not always the best incentive. It is leaking in every part of our society, sometimes in a destructive way. It's great for innovation and infrastructure, but not for our social life and human rights.
What do you think is the best incentive?
Reminds me of Eric Steven Raymond's hacker howto from 2001 [1] "Like most cultures without a money economy, hackerdom runs on reputation"