This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
~~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.
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.
They wouldn't need ads if they took a cut from all the porn and crypto ad bots littering the comment sections
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)
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.
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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
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.
and then everyone completely forgot about
You need to expand your sources of information. Threads is shit, I agree, but it is actually getting solid usage. You’re going off vibes on places like Lemmy.
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.
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
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
Ill federate this dick in their mouth
What do you mean, it's brand new??!
Is Threads even a good enough product for users to be willing to endure ads?
It allows no external browser and if you leave the app and return the page automatically refreshes so you lose your place.
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.
Oh no. Anyway....
Surprisedpikachu
Last time I checked Threads was 95% brand and influencer posts anyway.
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