X owner Elon Musk has long floated the idea of charging users $1 for the platform. Now the team is moving the idea into production.

X will begin charging new users $1 a year::X owner Elon Musk has long floated the idea of charging users $1 for the platform. Now, the team is moving the idea into production.

  • spudwart@spudwart.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Reminder that Competing Social Network Mastodon still charges new users $0 a year, as legally required in it’s AGPLv3 License.

    • ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      GPL licenses place no restriction on commercial use. They just say that the code has to be shared and free to modify and redistribute. Mastodon don’t charge because that makes little to no sense in a federated model

      • spudwart@spudwart.comEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Except it’s not a standard GPL license. It’s an AGPL license.

        Which does place many restrictions on commercial use and explicit rules for usage as a SaaS.