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Threads is offically getting ads
(www.theverge.com)
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
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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
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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.
As someone not using Threads this is a big surprise. I mean I'm surprised it didn't already have ads.
I got out just in time, it seems.
How much longer will Bluesky survive without doing the same?
How long before they introduce some sweet new fascism features?
Maybe a slider so we can adjust how much "masculine energy" shows up in our feeds?
"Our new GestureSupport("Gestapo") means you can now upvote by striking your arm up and to the right..."
My instance preemptively defederated from Threads, but I'm assuming those ads are going to be served to Threads users via API, right, and not federated out?
If Meta threw up ads as ActivityPub objects they'd probably be blocked so fast by every instance.
That didn’t take long
Oh no. Anyway....
You've got ads. Eventually but full-blown ads.
Surprisedpikachu
AHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
So, owned by a collaborator and a shitty user experience.
Also, who names their app after a downer post-apocalyptic film where everyone dies?
Threads is still around?
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.
Ill federate this dick in their mouth
Are there any instances that are actually federated with Threads?
It hasn’t come to Lemmy yet but when it does it appears only lemmy.world and sopuli.xyz is linked according to the fedi block list. Lemmy.world’s admin post about it seemed like they’re open to it. Both at https://slrpnk.net/comment/11960621 But no, no one’s seeing threads posts, yet.
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