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@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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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).
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It allows no external browser and if you leave the app and return the page automatically refreshes so you lose your place.
They wouldn't need ads if they took a cut from all the porn and crypto ad bots littering the comment sections
~~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.
Surprisedpikachu
Threads is still around?
Yes this is so confusing to me. There was a blast of attention about it when it was launched that lasted like a week max and then everyone completely forgot about it. I thought it was a short-run experiment that got shut down. What reason is there to use threads? Are there any actual humans who still use it? I've never visited it but something tells me that it's just like reddit with at most 100 real users and the rest is just bots replying to bots.
Oh no. Anyway....
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?
That didn’t take long
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
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