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In our case...
There's reciprocal offsets for digital services taxes like Canada has. That's part of it. The rest of it's exchange.
@PNS @wishgranter14 Except you don't pay $400/year (obviously its even more if you do it through Apple which takes it's 30% vig) to be "verified" for whatever that means on X. Three tiers, Premium no plus at $84/year gets you that:
"Basic: Includes essential Premium features like editing posts, longer posts and longer video uploads, reply prioritization, text formatting, bookmark folders, custom app icons, and more.
"Premium: Includes all Basic features plus a checkmark, reduced ads, access to apply for ads revenue sharing and creator subscriptions, larger reply prioritization, ID verification, Media Studio, and increased usage limits on Grok.
"Premium+: Includes all Premium features with additional benefits like higher limits on Grok, no ads anywhere on X, largest reply prioritization, Radar Search, and Articles. Occasional promoted content may appear."
Re the question by @RandomDeamon "What idiot pays for that shit??" people with IRL presences on X; I don't know beyond journalists, real as well as fake, but that's the happening place for them, plus a lot of influential types like the explemar of weaponized autism Data Republican (small r) and others worth following. But better access to the least pozzed AI cloud offering is I assume going to be worth it for a lot of people, which apparently is driving the 80% jump from Premium.
@Xenophon positing tariffs is a real possibility; semiconductors are exempted (pretty much required), but the world's most intense printed circuit boards (PCBs) for motherboards, and I assume Nvidia's cards mounting their latest TSMC chips come from Taiwain.
Which is going to be subject to negotiation, but in the meantime it will be a while before such capacity is spun up in the in quantity. Plenty of intense PCBs are also made in the PRC, and Xi a) isn't for now playing along with Trump and b) has been preparing the PRC for economic catastrophe all the way to total war food embargoes for years. Like, killing ducks and telling the farmer to grow grain.
@istvan @PNS @PodunkPotato @Xenophon "Anything that takes users away from the big companies is probably overall better for the whole software ecosystem...."
True as far as it goes, but we're talking about a social media ecosystem here, the software is a means to that end of connecting people, a variant of Metcalfe's law has got to apply, he has one for social networks.
Xwitter is very very big in a number of sectors, some of extreme importance. I'm not interested in that action except as an occasional, Nitter mediated if more than one posting, observer, I like the Fediverse just fine for my purposes as I assume you do. But there's also the Bluesky Leftists, the video types on TicTock, Facebook is still a thing, ditto plenty of focused subReddits, LinkedIn, etc. etc. etc. Blogs and bigger sites like Breitbart, generally with Discus commenting systems also attract a lot of people.