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 3 weeks ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
On the contrary, that’s how you get an ad-free access to Threads content.
Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Interesting that you think that I may be interested in Threads content.
chrisbit@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
There are myriad reasons not too federate with Threads.
riodoro1@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tomorrow.
That’s when.
Stop using meta services.
EvilBit@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
‘no immediate timeline’ toward monetization
Soo, starting tomorrow
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I don’t get why anyone even uses it. There are other better options that aren’t run by Facebook.
FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Lmao, called it
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
I never tried threads even tho it was only popular for 2 weeks
sushrit_lawliet@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
People use threads in 2024?
Eggyhead@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Couldn’t I just block whatever account throws in advertising?
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Honestly surprised there are no ads yet. I thought that was the whole point of the website…
illi@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Hey, I’ve seen that one!
MagicShel@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Well that sounds enshitty.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
You don’t raise temperature while the frog is in the pond.
ricdeh@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.