As someone not using Threads this is a big surprise. I mean I’m surprised it didn’t already have ads.
As another someone who doesn’t use Threads, it is a big surprise to find out there’s a website or something called Threads that looks like it’s related to email and apparently is popular.
It’s Facebook brand Twitter, and is or was planned to be compatible with Mastodon (Fediverse Twitter)
“is popular”
Im pretty sure they auto setup an account on threads for anyone on Instagram to artificially make it popular.
As someone who uses thread how do you guys sew stuff?
we glue or melt things together. sometimes a stapler comes in handy as well
I use duct tape.
That was my first thought. I was surprised to find this out.
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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
Mastodon isn’t.
Lemmy isn’t.
Pixelfed isn’t.
🤞🏻
@ThomasCrappersGhost @moseschrute tbh, any of the single instances can have them, but at least you can choose a diferent instance or in last resort run your own
Thank fuck.
Btw, I have this referral code for PAID: Shadow Workers. If you use my sign up code you’ll receive 10,000 SlutCoin and a free MegaSlurpJob, so sign up today with the code: LemonParty69
I am in.
I want to know how sloppy the MegaSlurpJob is first. Free is free, but I want to know how much value I’m getting first before committing.
That was quick. They better not federate those ads
Federating ads sounds like a very quick way to get everyone else to defederate with you.
Jokes on them, I have always defederated them
You’d think the trans hate and nazi love would be enough for everyone to defederate with them.
Ill federate this dick in their mouth
Ads are targeted on the consumer, federating ads would be super bad PR, short lived and not at all effective.
“Super bad PR and not at all effective”
Yeah that sounds like a farcebook initiative
How long before they introduce some sweet new fascism features?
“Our new GestureSupport(“Gestapo”) means you can now upvote by striking your arm up and to the right…”
That is probably already implemented in the algorithm, currently disabled, but the control knob will start turning up as needed
Maybe a slider so we can adjust how much “masculine energy” shows up in our feeds?
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….
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.
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.
It allows no external browser and if you leave the app and return the page automatically refreshes so you lose your place.
Enshitification step 3
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!
I remember the heady days when I thought this was the final step of enshittification. Such simple and innocent times.
Last time I checked Threads was 95% brand and influencer posts anyway.
Ha you are saying that there’s nobody left? the remaining 5% must be robots lol
You know that you are saying this on a platform with an active user base in the low 6 figures, right?
You know the meme “there’s dozens of us”?
I am jacks colon, I get cancer I kill jack!
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To serve you relevant ads, Meta will use your activity on Threads and Instagram, the posts you interact with, your email address, and “your activity from off Meta technologies,” according to a support page.
Do I read it right in that they’ll try to follow you around Fediverse, aside from monitoring you on every site they already have a nose on?
De-fe-de-rate.
Probably more about their general user tracking than that tbh. Meta has always had profiles for everyone because of Facebook/meta integrations on every website
True
You not only misinterpreted the description, but then you proposed a measure completely useless to either the real situation or your imagined one.
You did lemmy proud.
Eh, my only complaint is that they lumped the “r” in with the “ate.” The “r” is part of the previous syllable.
That said, I highly doubt defederating would actually solve anything. If they want to scrape, they’ll scrape.
Exactly, all info on lemmy is public, defederation would help neither with 3rd party cookie tracking (the real situation) nor with tracking on other instances (what the user imagined they are doing).
BlueSky is next
Surprisedpikachu
They wouldn’t need ads if they took a cut from all the porn and crypto ad bots littering the comment sections
