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That didn’t take long
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?
If Meta threw up ads as ActivityPub objects they’d probably be blocked so fast by every instance.
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?
Another bot that may be running on your instance, so all those things start showing up for everyone else.
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).
How long before they introduce some sweet new fascism features?
That is probably already implemented in the algorithm, currently disabled, but the control knob will start turning up as needed
“Our new GestureSupport™ 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?
What do you mean, it’s brand new??!
Blue Sky is up next!
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.
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?
we glue or melt things together. sometimes a stapler comes in handy as well
I use duct tape.
It’s Facebook brand Twitter, and is or was planned to be compatible with Mastodon (Fediverse Twitter)
“is popular”
Im pretty sure they auto setup an account on threads for anyone on Instagram to artificially make it popular.
lol. I mean. It was inevitable considering every other shit meta product.
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.
I’m curious how Quest headsets will be enshitified.
Shhh. They forgot about us, let it stay that way a little longer!
Whats threads??
Threads. A thread:
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Meta/Facebook made a Twitter/X clone called Threads. They enabled activity pub, so that Fediverse users can be followed from Threads and vice versa.
And this is why /s is required lol
When reading the title I accidentally placed an ‘i’ in ‘ads’…
There are no accidents
Oh no. Anyway…
You’ve got ads. Eventually but full-blown ads.
Not just HV but full-blown ads.
AHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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.
You not only misinterpreted the description, but then you proposed a measure completely useless to either the real situation or your imagined one.
You did lemmy proud.
Eh, my only complaint is that they lumped the “r” in with the “ate.” The “r” is part of the previous syllable.
That said, I highly doubt defederating would actually solve anything. If they want to scrape, they’ll scrape.
Exactly, all info on lemmy is public, defederation would help neither with 3rd party cookie tracking (the real situation) nor with tracking on other instances (what the user imagined they are doing).
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
True
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”?
