How did they do it before Twitter?
I highly doubt these caps will be around for long to the point we have to re-think social media and pretend Mastodon will ever be a thing.
>Well you could pay you $8 hosting bill?
>Anything, anything at all we could do?
>Pay the hosting bill. It's $8
>My god man, why is Elon Musk doing this to us?!? Is there any way to get this to stop?
>Well we could pay the bill, which is $8.
>We are completely helpless in this situation. Let's complain about it on twitter!
The first one is obvious. Why should public institutions (or anybody) preferentially line Musk's pockets, especially when every other social media site is free?
The second is more subtle. The goal of this type of social media outreach by government is to make sure the messaging reaches as many people as possible. But Twitter, by instituting these restrictions, also limits the amount of people who can read these essential messages. So even if the government pays, its tweets reach fewer people than before. And thereby the government indirectly discriminates against people too poor to pay the fee.
Why should our governments line the pockets of verizon, cogent, L3, AT&T, when they could just broadcast the messages on a hacked together lorawan chat handheld that my friends and I use to talk to each other at burning man?
I’m sure snarkily repeating the same thing will change that fact, though, so keep it up!
Also, the “temporary” tweet limits are supposedly an anti-scraping, not anti-people-not-paying-for-Blue, measure.
