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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 431 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As someone not using Threads this is a big surprise. I mean I'm surprised it didn't already have ads.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 month ago

It's Facebook brand Twitter, and is or was planned to be compatible with Mastodon (Fediverse Twitter)

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

"is popular"

Im pretty sure they auto setup an account on threads for anyone on Instagram to artificially make it popular.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As someone who uses thread how do you guys sew stuff?

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 156 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 1 month ago

What do you mean, it's brand new??!

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 101 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Remember to send financial support to your server

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

Pixelfed isn’t.

🤞🏻

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[–] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago (2 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

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[–] Fizz 90 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That was quick. They better not federate those ads

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 81 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Federating ads sounds like a very quick way to get everyone else to defederate with you.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 27 points 1 month ago

Jokes on them, I have always defederated them

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

You’d think the trans hate and nazi love would be enough for everyone to defederate with them.

[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago

Ill federate this dick in their mouth

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[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 75 points 1 month ago (3 children)

How long before they introduce some sweet new fascism features?

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Our new GestureSupport("Gestapo") means you can now upvote by striking your arm up and to the right..."

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[–] airportline@lemmy.ml 73 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Is Threads even a good enough product for users to be willing to endure ads?

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[–] lefixxx@lemmy.world 70 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Happened even faster than I thought lol.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 month ago (2 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.

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[–] remote_control_conor@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

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

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 57 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Last time I checked Threads was 95% brand and influencer posts anyway.

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[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 55 points 1 month ago
[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 53 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 51 points 1 month 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 1 month 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

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 25 points 1 month ago (38 children)

BlueSky has some novel monetization concepts but yes, I think they will eventually find that those are not sustainable and will introduce ads eventually.

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 1 month ago

Surprisedpikachu

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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?

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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?

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 month ago

If Meta threw up ads as ActivityPub objects they'd probably be blocked so fast by every instance.

[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 month ago

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

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

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm honestly amazed they didn't have ads out of the gate, Meta's whole schtick is advertising and data.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Oh no. Anyway....

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You've got ads. Eventually but full-blown ads.

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[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

AHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[–] sircac@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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