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X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service (techcrunch.com)

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X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service::X owner Elon Musk today floated the idea that the social network formerly known as Twitter may no longer be a free site. In a live-streamed conversation

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[-] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

How does wayland avoid X fees?

[-] Amir@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

There are no X11 fees, this is a joke about X=X11 and not X=Twitter

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

The X11 fee is having to contend with Xwayland for years to come

[-] oKtosiTe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Not at all. That’s the joke.

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