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lol. I mean. It was inevitable considering every other shit meta product.
Does Threads use Fediverse tho?
It uses activity pub, it’s not part of the fediverse. It’s getting defederated by everyone else because of Metas lack of moderation abilities among other issues.
It does
That was quick. They better not federate those ads
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Ads are targeted on the consumer, federating ads would be super bad PR, short lived and not at all effective.
Federating ads sounds like a very quick way to get everyone else to defederate with you.
You’d think the trans hate and nazi love would be enough for everyone to defederate with them.
Jokes on them, I have always defederated them
Enshitification step 3
I remember the heady days when I thought this was the final step of enshittification. Such simple and innocent times.
Happened even faster than I thought lol.
The enshittification is carried over from other products. They’re meta, so anything they launch is partly along the path already, because they can artificially boost the launch numbers with cross-platform promotion, and because everyone already knows what assholes they are, they’re starting off with a lot of goodwill lost.
Basically, just slapping a new name and a new account creation process on some new features in their social network, is not enough to make it a new network.
I’m curious how Quest headsets will be enshitified.
Shhh. They forgot about us, let it stay that way a little longer!
When reading the title I accidentally placed an ‘i’ in ‘ads’…
There are no accidents
Tell that to my little brother.
Surprisedpikachu
I am jacks colon, I get cancer I kill jack!
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When threads first saw its posts on Lemmy[when Lemmy first started posting about threads], I was reading one and a coworker looked over my shoulder and gasped. I looked up at her, and she said, “what is that?? And why is the logo a pubic hair?!” Good times.Edit. Clarification.
They wouldn’t need ads if they took a cut from all the porn and crypto ad bots littering the comment sections
Is Threads even a good enough product for users to be willing to endure ads?
No, now that Bluesky is around I’ve stopped using Threads altogether.
Blue sky getting ads in 3, 2, 1….
And that’s when I leave Bluesky too. Meta goes down within a month and the clock is ticking for Bluesky. I’ll stay in the fediverse.
I mean… either they introduce ads, or they start charging for the service.
VC funding only lasts so long, and they have bills to pay (and probably shares to sell).
And that’s the problem. Sure, it’s better than threads or xitter now. The business model dictates that it will sink to the same level.
It allows no external browser and if you leave the app and return the page automatically refreshes so you lose your place.
Remember to send financial support to your server
Wish I could, but I haven’t found a way to do that. I guess the admin is working on it?
For yours, there is a heart outline up at the top of the page which leads to:
That’s not donating to my instance though, it’s just donating to the devs. Not quite the same thing.
Yes, I noticed that. It was the only donation link I spotted though. You could ask the admins that are listed in the right-side panel (TheDude, etc).
Yeah, many people have asked, but nothing yet. Not sure why it hasn’t happened yet.
Check the About section for your server like this, not every server has donations set up tho https://thebrainbin.org/about
I don’t see one for my instance.
I think they don’t care as much, because the server runs on 100% renewable energy: pure Canadian maple syrup.
Is this some fancy way of saying “Please tip your waitress”
Please tip your federatress
That didn’t take long
Still doesn’t support instance migration tho, hmm
You’ve got ads. Eventually but full-blown ads.
Not just HV but full-blown ads.
Good, the sooner they run it into the ground the better.
