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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 92 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 71 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Pixelfed isn’t.

🤞🏻

[–] MalMen@masto.pt 10 points 6 days ago

@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

[–] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lefixxx@lemmy.world 70 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I remember the heady days when I thought this was the final step of enshittification. Such simple and innocent times.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Happened even faster than I thought lol.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm curious how Quest headsets will be enshitified.

[–] AngryMob@lemmy.one 7 points 6 days ago

Shhh. They forgot about us, let it stay that way a little longer!

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 51 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Rykzon@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 4 points 6 days ago
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[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 33 points 6 days ago

They wouldn't need ads if they took a cut from all the porn and crypto ad bots littering the comment sections

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

~~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.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] renzev@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

Oh no. Anyway....

[–] sircac@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

When reading the title I accidentally placed an ‘i’ in ‘ads’…

[–] lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 days ago

AHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

So, owned by a collaborator and a shitty user experience.

Also, who names their app after a downer post-apocalyptic film where everyone dies?

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