And this is why it’s not a good idea to federate with Threads.
Threads spotted exploring ads, but says 'no immediate timeline' toward monetization
Submitted 2 months ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
On the contrary, that’s how you get an ad-free access to Threads content.
Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Interesting that you think that I may be interested in Threads content.
chrisbit@leminal.space 2 months ago
There are myriad reasons not too federate with Threads.
riodoro1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tomorrow.
That’s when.
Stop using meta services.
EvilBit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We know what enshittification looks like now. Just because you restart it doesn’t mean it’s not obvious where it ends up.
314xel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
‘no immediate timeline’ toward monetization
Soo, starting tomorrow
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I don’t get why anyone even uses it. There are other better options that aren’t run by Facebook.
FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s an awareness thing. Everyone uses it because everyone else uses it, because it’s the main one people know about, because Meta has unlimited money to market it and scale it, which are exorbitantly expensive.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
Most people are some combination of lazy, uninformed, stressed, and stupid. Can’t think long term, just trying to get to tomorrow.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Not complicated.
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The value of any social network is its’ users more than anything. They’ll use it in spite of it being super shitty if the people they want to follow are on it.
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Threads basically created “one-click account creation” with Instagram so the onboarding was seamless.
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They capitalized on the Muskification of Twitter.
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YeetPics@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Lmao, called it
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tried Threads briefly. It’s full of the same people who comment on or create Facebook reels. Insta-political trolling, deliberately wrong info just to get people to comment and correct it, “I’m stupidly out of the loop on this ridiculously popular topic, can someone tell me why [thing] is?” Like every low-effort post on Reddit ever.
Couple that with the inability to sort, and the inability for notifications to take you to the post you were having a discussion on, and I gave up after about 3-4 days.
The platform sucks and so do the participants.
the_doktor@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I used it early on and at that point no one had heard of it and it was full of really cool people with good discourse. But then corporations and the rest of the riff-raff found it and it turned into what you saw it as.
The only way to keep something good is to not let it become popular.
Sharan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have tried Threads, and I really can’t recall when was the last time I wasn’t impressed at all by something.
This doesn’t help.the situation at all.
Hell, Musk’s Twitter is a better option to explore than Threads.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
I never tried threads even tho it was only popular for 2 weeks
sushrit_lawliet@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
People use threads in 2024?
Eggyhead@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Couldn’t I just block whatever account throws in advertising?
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Honestly surprised there are no ads yet. I thought that was the whole point of the website…
illi@lemm.ee 2 months ago
They need to make it nice first, to reel people in. Once they are in and invested, that’s when ads start.
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Hey, I’ve seen that one!
MagicShel@programming.dev 2 months ago
Well that sounds enshitty.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep. that’s the classic shitty business model
Make a site that’s attractive to use for a lot of people
Once you have enough people, lock in the users with network effect, walled garden, etc
Use the users to draw in businesses
Lock in the businesses and squeeze them for profit.
Squeeze users and businesses for money, abandon any maintenance and improvement on the site except for monetization.
zecg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You don’t raise temperature while the frog is in the pond.
ricdeh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t understand this metaphor. Is it about frog breeding for later eating? Why else would you want to heat your pond, irrespective of the frog. And why is there a greater incentive to heat the pond when there’s no frog, and vice versa? So many questions!
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 months ago
They have to build social inertia first. This is something Facebook figured out a long time ago and is well-documented. They were begging for money from investors to keep the site running and Zuck refused to run ads because the site was still growing like crazy.
It might be years yet before they start running ads but rest assured they will eventually.