Threads is offically getting ads
Threads is offically getting ads
As someone not using Threads this is a big surprise. I mean I'm surprised it didn't already have ads.
That was my first thought. I was surprised to find this out.
What do you mean, it's brand new??!
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..."
Maybe a slider so we can adjust how much "masculine energy" shows up in our feeds?
Is Threads even a good enough product for users to be willing to endure ads?
Enshitification step 3
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.
I remember the heady days when I thought this was the final step of enshittification. Such simple and innocent times.
Last time I checked Threads was 95% brand and influencer posts anyway.
Ha you are saying that there's nobody left? the remaining 5% must be robots lol
You know that you are saying this on a platform with an active user base in the low 6 figures, right?
You know the meme "there's dozens of us"?
I am jacks colon, I get cancer I kill jack!
Surprisedpikachu
They wouldn't need ads if they took a cut from all the porn and crypto ad bots littering the comment sections
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).
If Meta threw up ads as ActivityPub objects they'd probably be blocked so fast by every instance.
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.
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.
That was quick.
I'm honestly amazed they didn't have ads out of the gate, Meta's whole schtick is advertising and data.
Facebook famously didn't have ads for a long time, even when people were pressuring Zuck to add them to keep the site from going running out of capital. Call it a loss leader, call it enshittification or market capture, whatever. Most companies that can afford to will start out being really great to their users, and once they have captured a section of the market, they start clawing more of that value back for themselves and their investors.
Oh no. Anyway....
You've got ads. Eventually but full-blown ads.
Not just HV but full-blown ads.
When reading the title I accidentally placed an ‘i’ in ‘ads’…
There are no accidents
Tell that to my little brother.
AHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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
Good, the sooner they run it into the ground the better.
Still doesn't support instance migration tho, hmm
Nice. Get ready to scale your servers, folks!
lol. I mean. It was inevitable considering every other shit meta product.
I got out just in time, it seems.
How much longer will Bluesky survive without doing the same?
It's either ads or a paid subscription. One of the two are inevitable, because running infrastructure to support millions of users ain't free.
you were in?!
Blue Sky is up next!
Are there any instances that are actually federated with Threads?
I knew that there where some larger masto servers that tried to stay neutral but at least a lot of them switched when meta basically said they remove fact checking and let sexism and racism run ranpant without any consequences
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.
Good news I guess!
So, owned by a collaborator and a shitty user experience.
Also, who names their app after a downer post-apocalyptic film where everyone dies?