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Me too, I think it's a case of people not understanding everything has a cost. If it's free you're either taking the time and labour of someone else, or you're skimming small amounts from everyone to cover the cost, and feeling like stealing in negligible amounts is a human right.
I've lived without 24 hour electricty, with water rationing, my family have had their homes taken from the government, so I know rights mean nothing. It's really just an idea people hold who are afraid to give up modern comforts.
Once you learn to live without these things and see you're not made of glass and won't shatter because you can't access this or that, then you realise holding onto those dreams cost society more than it provides
They just paid a 900k sats fee.
So what's the problem here?
Bitcoin blocks space is a market place.
Yes, I don't like useless crap on the blockchain, but is still a fee market. They paid the fee? Fine, let them see if they can sustain this expensive crap...
Soon will be just a fade joke, like it was for many years,
Posting pictures on the blockchain is not from now, is even from 2015...
@petertodd also explain it very clearly here
https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/1619692068519149568
Im going to push back here. What if Twitter is looking for a revenue source to power their servers and pay their programmers to keep the application running?
Are we not supposed to pay for software that we use and find viable?
As someone who works in FOSS and understands first hand how hard it is to monetize something people think should be free should have more consideration about the choices Twitter is making to charge its users for access to his (Musk’s) application.
I think this post falls into the China fallacy that WeChat controls every aspect of life of the common person in China. Most of China is still not developed. Sure those living in cities and connected to the web are forced to deal with WeChat
But how is it different than USA? Citizens are forced to get a bank account and establish a credit history to buy a home. We have credit bureaus that surveil every time you miss a payment and adds to their database and you have no way of stopping them.
I recognize the goal here but people really need to get out of this free for me mentality and be willing to pay for the services you receive.