That is, we are going to see many new users in the fediverse
I doubt there’s much overlap between verified accounts, which tend to be associated with corps, and people moving to fediverse.
Right in the bot farms, ouch!
Eh, honestly I think it is a good move, fuck you and your status symbol.
Yeah, from business perspective this seems to actually be pretty sensible. Verified accounts largely represent official accounts from companies such as news orgs. Paying 20 bucks a month for verification is pocket change for them, and they will do it to continue having official presence on the platform. There are literally millions of such accounts translating into tens of millions in monthly revenue.
This approach also creates a direct monetization model as opposed to the current indirect ads/analytics based revenue stream. Ad revenue is currently crashing as US economy enters a recession. Both Fb and Google are showing huge losses and doing layoffs already. Focusing on the main product would also likely allow cutting down on the employees significantly which is something that Musk keeps talking about.
yep as much as I dislike Elon’s politics, this is actually a good business move.
Though I doubt this will impact the ads/analytics side of things.
Yeah, I can’t see them dumping that entirely either. Data analytics in particular will likely always be profitable. That said, it is likely there will be some cuts going forward just to trim the operating expenses.
Identification brokerage. What exactly will Twitter add to the identity verification matrix? When you sign up, and want to get those sophisticated things, they ensure you give them verifiable proof you are who you claim to be. Phone number which you can receive a text from periodically, email address which implies other people verified you, date of birth (I do not know how this helps other than then running triangulation on it from other ID providers) etc. After you do all this, they then ask you to pay to be “verified”. The status aspect on Twitter notwithstanding, it sounds like those “irrational” market outcomes.
The funny thing will be governments paying for this, when they are literally the origin of the very documents Twitter uses to verify people.
Mmmm, we might need a mastodon.verified instance maybe? 🤔
You can self verify on Mastodon as long as you control a domain where you can stick a tag into an HTML page. You just stick a
<a rel="me" href="https://your.mastodon.server/@your-id">Mastodon</a>tag in the head of the page and then reference the page on your Mastodon account. This proves that Mastodon account owns the domain.That’s possible just for the owner of a mastodon instance, not for standard users who visit an instance
Gotta better understand how that works then, thanks
@yogthos @Suoko Btw, this is a brilliant feature that Mastodon came up with and I’d wish it was adopted by all ActivityPub implementations. I wonder if you could even verify the ownership of other fediverse profiles in a similiar matter. Every once in a while, talks about unified identities across the fediverse re-emerge and that just might be an extremely simple way of going about it.
am i the only one who thinks this is actually a good idea? this is essentially the perfect form of monetisation: you pay for something superficial which doesn’t provide you with any inherent advantage except for looking cool
it’s like skins in counter strike 🤷♀️
Basically, and the target audience will pay because they want the prestige or they belong to a large organization or a government. Does seem like a reasonable way to monetize to me.
reddit is so mad about this for some reason, like bruh, don’t buy it if you don’t want smh 🤷♀️
LOL yeah, it’s especially funny given that reddit sells flair and people seem to pay for it.
sells flair
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no really, i know that the sell avatars and shit, but do they actually sell flairs?
oh I was thinking about avatars. Point is they sell frivolous stuff that people on Reddit pay money for, while moaning that people in Twitter will now pay money for similar kinds of frivolous stuff. :)
