Im going to push back here. What if Twitter is looking for a revenue source to power their servers and pay their programmers to keep the application running?

Are we not supposed to pay for software that we use and find viable?

As someone who works in FOSS and understands first hand how hard it is to monetize something people think should be free should have more consideration about the choices Twitter is making to charge its users for access to his (Musk’s) application.

I think this post falls into the China fallacy that WeChat controls every aspect of life of the common person in China. Most of China is still not developed. Sure those living in cities and connected to the web are forced to deal with WeChat

But how is it different than USA? Citizens are forced to get a bank account and establish a credit history to buy a home. We have credit bureaus that surveil every time you miss a payment and adds to their database and you have no way of stopping them.

I recognize the goal here but people really need to get out of this free for me mentality and be willing to pay for the services you receive.