I don’t get all complaining about Twitter moving to a subscription model. Assume it’s mostly Elon bad, so new thing Elon does is bad.

The product will improve if the default experience is you only see subscribers.

There’s a lot of academic research analyzing the fall of social networks that suggests this isn’t the case. 

Forcing a subscription means that the most valuable members of the network will likely leave and create a network effect that leads to more people leaving.

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What person with a lot of existing distribution won’t pay $8 a month to keep that?

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won't people start making money if the ad revenue share actually gets added?

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Money is a moot point if you burn through a decade’s worth of accumulated goodwill in a year.

Yep. Completely changed the relationship between users and the ecosystem. It was always commercial but it never felt like a “service” before. It was just a place we gathered.

do you mean for yourself in particular? is it just the main character thing that burned your goodwill?