I would have expected Meta to have learned by Elons mistakes but I was just asked if I want to subscribe for a blue tick to verify my account to make my followers feelnsafer
Submitted 1 year ago by eggshappedegg@sopuli.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
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Nuuskis9@feddit.nl 1 year ago
zucky@lemmy.world 1 year ago
tried Threads and it feels like Mastodon with all the good features removed, which is probably why people are leaving. Even after over 2 weeks, it’s still the exact same piece of shit as it was on its launch
Saneless@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It’s a product or feature Facebook launched. Why would we have ever expected anything different?
mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Very good.
Ddhuud@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
What is they era verifying? That you had 12 bucks to throw away?
ilmagico@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The way it was meant to be, when social media started doing that, is that it verifies your identity. You use your real name (or stage name, or business name) in the account, and they “verify” it actually belongs to you and not an impostor.
Now instead, it verifies that you paid the fee, and your account name could be Napoleon Bonaparte for what they care.
darkmatterstyx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Until they both lose money and users measurably from these changes, they will copy one another to chase every last cent.
soulifix@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Does anyone remember being around people, when you were a kid, that awarded you behavioral stickers that are holographic and had various shapes like stars or animals?
This is exactly what this stupid verification thing is about. OoOOOoO, I’m so special that I got a fucking checkmark next to my name and I actually spend money that could’ve gone to something else worthwhile just to keep it! /s
I feel like we’re in a world where all of these companies are fronted by childish adults that treat all of their userbases like these kinds of kids. But they pretend that they’re adults because they do business things.
Hick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Meta promised more exposure for my small business posts, didn’t deliver.
zucky@lemmy.world 1 year ago
when has Meta delivered any of their promise?
eggshappedegg@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Wait… They promised more exposure if you verified your account?
Hick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A broader audience: Reach more people across comments, search and recommendations.
Or so they claimed…
s08nlql9@lemm.ee 1 year ago
are tech companies doing this
now-paid-but-was-free-for-a-long-timeservice because they know their company is failing (or soon to fail), so they are trying to accumulate as much money as they can before sh*t hits the fan?Calcium5332@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A lot of social media companies aren’t profitable, but they didn’t care because of cheap loans and lots of investors. Now that loans are more ecpensive and investors want AI, social media companies are realizing, “We need to make money, or investors will hate us”, and are locking things down. Twitter, Reddit, Youtube, and Tumblr are some of the examples we see. All trying to push subscriptions or block adblockers.
Tomassci@kbin.social 1 year ago
I am not an economist, but I have an idea that this is because the alternatives have done that too, and since this renders the point of moving invalid, they might as well also introduce the same stuff
_s10e@feddit.de 1 year ago
Why not both?
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People on Threads are still delusioned that it’s different from Twitter lol
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
People need to stop acting like it’s crazy to pay for the software and servers you use.
Eggyhead@kbin.social 1 year ago
Other people need to stop acting like all software automatically justifies subscription pricing.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
If your software requires continuous updates and development (as all web connected software does), and requires servers and moderators to run, then it has costs. You either pay those costs directly, or you let advertisers pay the direct costs and you pay the advertisers in your time, and attention, and they’ll corrupt the server or software you’re using into maximizing engagement.
mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 year ago
It is crazy to pay these companies who are already run by billionaries and are already owning the largest sites on the internet.
It’s like people don’t take that into account. Who are we paying? It’s kind of important. I pay smaller companies for email and search because they are not cancers on the internet.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Do you want internet to be like cable TV with 10 massive internet sites that all require paying and all are owned by the same corporations? If not, stop supporting them.
I would rather they be like commercial free paid streaming, then the waste of time advertisement stuffed hell holes.
Zeth0s@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have a monthly subscription for contributing to the lemmy server I am using.
Still I believe that a monthly-paid verification is stealing, as verification process has to be done only once
mawp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Are they gunna stop making money off my data if I subscribe to this? No? Didn’t think so.
ProfessorZhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Mistakes? The premium was one of the best choices Musk made. Everyone kept using it and it allowed him to just extract wealth from people for no consequences. Why wouldn’t other companies follow suit?
Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Am I reading that right? It will cost an extra $4 to register the check mark on mobile devices compared to desktop?
Does that mean you only get the benefits on mobile if you pay the extra $ or does it mean you can pay either way but charging on mobile has a $4 convenience fee?
Deref@kbin.social 1 year ago
It covers Apple/Google tax. They didn't want to have lower revenue on mobile or go the Spotify route.
eggshappedegg@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I was also surprised that you will need to verify all your accounts. If you run 3 social media accounts across Instagram or Facebook, you can buy a blue tick for each, even though you run them all from your (maybe) verified account
FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“available later this week” and they didn’t even bother including the price in the local currencies?
fubo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]eggshappedegg@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Elon owns Twitter not Google. Not sure how you got into comparing Facebook with Google
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Google has had many successful products since AdWords & AdSense
Had being the primary word after Google cancelled them.
Don’t be a fanboi for an advertising company. Google is a shit company that has produced by and large garbage while letting their primary user facing products wilt on the vine over the past 4 years.
Niello@kbin.social 1 year ago
Personally, they are the same sort of trash ever since I realise I can’t access its content from a web browser and I have to download the app with an account, so from the start.
WhoRoger@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, shows how these people think. You should pay for everything, even the natural stuff like identity.
Of closed, if people are willing to pay, well…
plz1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’d be one thing if they were adding any more value or removing their marketing surveillance, but paying this much per month for a blue check mark is just bonkers.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can understand why they are doing this, the programming require to roll out a feature like this is minimal, so even if they barely profit from it, if at all, they didn’t spend a lot of time on doing this feature, so, expect other platforms to soon follow.
gapbetweenus@feddit.de 1 year ago
Elon managing to collect monthly fee for basically a jpeg, is definitely not worst of his business moves.
Risk@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I dunno, it delegitimised the usefulness of Twitter somewhat. Now you can’t be certain that the NASA account that announces an apocalyptic asteroid is real or not.
gapbetweenus@feddit.de 1 year ago
Long term effects are really of no concern for modern CEOs, that’s not exclusive to Elon that is modus operandi.