When I first heard Elon Musk was going to charge newbies on X, like most I thought well that's the end of X.
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But then I thought isn't that exactly what Podcasting 2.0 is trying to encourage users to do?
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If Elon can (re)introduce micropayments to X for the payments and give everyone a wallet then maybe he is helping train the mass market to pay for content creators.