Because the tech behind it isn’t cheap and money does not fall from trees.

See this one on the “classic” UI.

There’s already kinda a karma system, but its basically a upvote / downvote count and afaik the karma system on Reddit had some quirks.

Even though people on Lemmy hate Elon Musk and what he’s doing to Twitter (there’s a lot of hate against him here, since most people are left leaning), he got the message loud and clear: People are tired of ads and of platforms that eat through our personal data like Google and Meta.

All his actions with Twitter is to steer Twitter away from the advertising system. My guess is, he wants advertising to be a non-essencial source of revenue, hence he switching the name of the platform to X.

My guess is that he’s planning to make a super-app with multiple services, so there will be:

• X Twitter
• X Pay
• X Banking … etc,

These other services will provide the other revenue the platform needs.

Why did I brought this up? It’s because Google and Meta failed to see the message and they’re going on a downward spiral. Google has been trying to charge more and more on subscriptions on YouTube for example, but that’s not nearly enough to cover the percentage of the advertising revenue. And now instead of trying to find new solutions they’re doubling down on advertising revenue strategy by making ad blocking unusable in the most used browser engine.

There’s technically a karma system already…

Some APPs show the upvote score which can be either positive or negative. The information is already there, its just to the APP to show. As far as I know the lemmy.world UI doesn’t show it, but it appears it technically could.

Also as a right leaning person everytime I say an opinion I get downvoted to hell, which puts my score in negative.

Ah so it’s the same already as here. I know I’d have to pay to fill a form online and pay a sum to go to the US. The title is a bit misleading.

That’s quite bullshit honestly. As far as I know if I wanted to go to US I’d need a VISA.

I’m confused, didn’t Americans need a VISA to visit European countries? They just jump into a plain and fly here with their passport and no questions asked?

If it’s like this I had no idea…

Every new flagship phone is water resistant man.

A good engagement metric is a good thing to show to big advertisers no? At the end of the day these companies couldn’t care less with woke/pc culture, they just want to sell.

I mean that’s is just to show how much of a reform the American system actually needs. Lobbying should be forbidden for instance.

Honestly there’s the political compass (example here) that can sum up better political views for what matters. Though the left and right specter should be considered more regarding the economy, you have communists and nazis which in the freedoms are pretty much in the same place, while economy-wise they’re different.

That’s honestly the state of the world. Left: good, right wing is somehow fascist. Will sound like some QANON shit but this is probably what Putin and others want, to divide and conquer. While we’re arguing about shit that in the end doesn’t really matter, The US dollar is going downhill together with western democracies.

Pretty much sums up the nowadays discussions. If you’re a commie/socialist you’re good, if you even dare to defend the free market you’re a shit asshole.

Everyone who defends a free market will like Lemmy since it’s pretty much adding a competitor (or a ton of them if you count it as instances) to the market. If the instance owner wants profit or not I don’t know, but these type of servers does not run themselves for free.

And you got 8 downvotes only for saying you’re right leaning…

The extremes are similars in various ways.

He’s talking about only changing the logo and people are all talking about it. It’s free marketing like he does with Tesla.

Which accounts?

Almost everyday Ukrainian child’s get either killed or hurt in random attacks to civilian targets. This bridge is a military target, and Russians should already be aware of it.

Could be meant more like to influence elections…

You’re painting him like he’s a super villain, that’s pure hate for him. Why?