X accounts are limited to 50 posts and 200 replies a day unless they pay

hereme888

I stopped paying for a blue checkmark when I noticed so many paid accounts were managed by AI bots anyways, and my account is shadow-banned when I post unpopular opinions.

TooSmugToFail

So much more than my average of zero posts and zero replies per year.

peterlk

Bluesky, threads, mastodon, and everything else built on activitypub AT, etc. are still there. You can leave X behind; the only thing stopping you is the other people who could also leave X but are still there because you’re there. There are real problems with the fediverse, but they are solvable and the biggest problem is the social connections/stickiness. So start with that!

866-RON-0-FEZ

If you're posting to social media as a casual user more than 50 times a day, you're either a spam bot or severely mentally ill. Those numbers are hit by 24/7 news organizations with large social media teams on staff. They obviously have the means to pay for professional-level access. Hitting the limit should unironically be a sign to go outside and touch grass.

turtlesdown11

trying to monetize the botnets

Havoc

With few exceptions (shared corp accounts like apple's) 50 posts should just be the hardcap overall. You don't have 200 good insights per day that the world absolutely needs to hear...

tqi

I would pay to see no more than 50 posts per account per year in my feed. (And 0 replies)

spiderfarmer

Just leave. If you’re staying because of your ‘audience’, you’ll find a new one elsewhere. Staying on X associates you with crypto scams, rage bait content and worse.

lacewing

And if you need to post more than 50 tweets and 200 replies a day, you should probably pay a therapist before you pay Elon. Sincerely, that kind of engagement with total strangers is just terrible in the long haul. I've never seen anyone with that kind of usage who seemed to be happy and well-adjusted.

vlod

Not sure if this really matters that much. If one don't pay, the algorithm (I believe?) ranks your comment at the bottom of the blue check marks and it's rare to get any sort of engagement. I expect the same algorithm ranking with new posts. I read but rarely engage as what's the point.

ticulatedspline

seems like a good move. If the lame rebranding, platform enshittificaiton, or Musk's dubious political alignment and all around repulsiveness didn't turn them off yet, and they're actually posting that much that's pretty much a captive audience. Might as well squeeze some cash outta them.

vga1

I could see myself paying for a service like X, so that the service quality would be higher due to all the participants putting some money in. And that would be a nice way to keep bots out of the network. I will not pay for a service that has bots and free user tier in addition to the paid tier and all the other junk like ads, mining my data and Grok. Musk on top of it all does not help either. Bluesky is mostly a leftist echo chamber, which is irritating in its own way.