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		codetrotter on March 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly eve... > When does Twitter start paying it's users who produce the data? Never. Having a business in the capitalist system is about maximising profits. Musk spent ~$44bn USD or so to buy Twitter (and tried to back out of the deal too). Do you really think Twitter is gonna fairly compensate any of the users any time soon? You’d be better off migrating to Mastodon. Maybe some instance in that ecosystem will figure out how to use crypto for good, and to compensate its content creators.

aliswe on March 10, 2023 [–]

> Do you really think Twitter is gonna fairly compensate any of the users any time soon?

Yes, if it makes business sense to do so. Like it does for content creatos.

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