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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.
As someone who uses thread how do you guys sew stuff?
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:
Check the About section for your server like this, not every server has donations set up tho https://thebrainbin.org/about
Is this some fancy way of saying “Please tip your waitress”
Please tip your federatress
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?
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?
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?
Things don’t really federate out with ActivityPub, they federate in. To receive off-site content, you have to subscribe to it.
Who is going to subscribe to a Threads ad bot?
Right, and I’m assuming Threads works on the Mastodon-style user follow paradigm, which means, currently, anyway, Lemmy wouldn’t be able to follow them directly.
But the ad-bot could, in theory, tag a Lemmy community and have that show up on Lemmy (at least, that seems to be how Mastodon content arrives here).
Another bot that may be running on your instance, so all those things start showing up for everyone else.
If Meta threw up ads as ActivityPub objects they’d probably be blocked so fast by every instance.
Last time I checked Threads was 95% brand and influencer posts anyway.
BlueSky is next
That was quick.
I’m honestly amazed they didn’t have ads out of the gate, Meta’s whole schtick is advertising and data.
They thought they could EEE the fediverse first.
Turns out people on decentralised social media aren’t totally fucking brain dead and could see it coming a mile away.
What does EEE stand for?
You’ve got ads. Eventually but full-blown ads.
Not just HV but full-blown ads.
Nice. Get ready to scale your servers, folks!
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.
Still doesn’t support instance migration tho, hmm
lol. I mean. It was inevitable considering every other shit meta product.
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