There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Sharan ,

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.

gravitas_deficiency ,

And this is why it’s not a good idea to federate with Threads.

woelkchen ,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

On the contrary, that’s how you get an ad-free access to Threads content.

Samvega ,

Interesting that you think that I may be interested in Threads content.

woelkchen ,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Interesting that you think that I may be interested in Threads content.

I’m not interested in what content you are interested in. You (Edit: Not even you, gravitas_deficiency. Why even interject as if you were the person I replied to?) made a comment regarding blocking Threads content for everyone. Let everyone decide for themselves which accounts to follow, don’t promote not to federate at all just because you personally don’t want to follow accounts there. Just don’t click the follow button, duh.

zecg ,
@zecg@lemmy.world avatar

Pardon my generalization, but literally no one is interested in threads

troed ,
@troed@fedia.io avatar

I follow many Threads accounts.

/literally one more than no one

conciselyverbose ,

Go to some junk instance that’s willing to federate if you want.

Federating with Threads makes an instance unacceptable as far as most of us are concerned. Their mere existence is malignant.

woelkchen ,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Go to some junk instance that’s willing to federate if you want.

The Mastodon instance I use already does and absolutely nothing negatively happened to it. Mastodon users can just block entire instances on their own if they happen to not like any content from there.

Federating with Threads makes an instance unacceptable as far as most of us are concerned. Their mere existence is malignant.

That’s based on conspiracy theories and not an actually informed decision based on how the Fediverse works. Most of you don’t even understand that Threads content wouldn’t even show up on Lemmy in the first place. Threads doesn’t even have communities.

conciselyverbose ,

Because Facebook hasn’t done anything yet.

Blocking Facebook as a user is not good enough. Any server that connects to them legitimizes them and is not acceptable behavior.

It absolute is not a conspiracy, and most people unwilling to participate in any server that interacts with Facebook in any way are doing so exactly because they understand the technology and Facebook’s history. Literally everything Facebook has ever touched turned to dogshit. “I won’t participate in a platform that doesn’t completely block Facebook” is not the naive, uninformed position. (That’s using Facebook and their other platforms.) It’s the people who recognize how pure fucking evil Facebook is.

woelkchen ,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Because Facebook hasn’t done anything yet.

And they cannot circumvent to ActivityPub protocol to display ads to users who don’t want so see them. Claiming otherwise is conspiracy theories.

Blocking Facebook as a user is not good enough

Yes, it is.

Any server that connects to them legitimizes them and is not acceptable behavior.

That’s not for you to decide.

It absolute is not a conspiracy

It absolutely is.

and most people unwilling to participate in any server that interacts with Facebook in any way

First: That’s untrue.

Second: Such an opinion is based on conspiracy theories and therefore not valid.

are doing so exactly because they understand the technology

No, they and you don’t.

“I won’t participate in a platform that doesn’t completely block Facebook” is not the naive, uninformed position.

Yes, it is and you don’t even realize that you are participatin in a platform that doesn’t completely block Facebook Threads right now. That’s proof enough that you don’t understand the technology.

It’s the people who recognize how pure fucking evil Facebook is.

Then allowing ad-free access to accounts hosted there should be your agenda. That’s how they don’t get money, not by pushing people to sign up for their platform, just because they want to follow their favorite movie franchise or sports team.

Jimbo ,
@Jimbo@yiffit.net avatar

yes, it is

It absolutely is

No, they and you don’t

What great arguments you have. Really gonna convince people with that.

woelkchen ,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

What great arguments you have.

Yes, I have, you just chose not to quote any of them. Threads cannot push ads to Mastodon users who don’t want to see them. Mastoton users can subscribe to brand accounts who then may make promotional posts but again: Threads cannot push any of those to users as ads. That’s simply not how ActivityPub works. I explained this countless times already. Certain people just aren’t interested in facts and choose to quote selectively as if those arguments were never made. That’s dishonest.

Samvega ,

I’m not interested in what content you are interested in.

Yes, this is the kind of thing a terminally boring person says.

troed ,
@troed@fedia.io avatar

Ads don't federate.

zecg ,
@zecg@lemmy.world avatar

That’s why they have stealth enshittification techniques to disguise them.

woelkchen ,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

That’s why they have stealth enshittification techniques to disguise them.

Promotional posts don’t magically show up on Mastodon for users who don’t follow the brand account that posted them. That’s not how Mastodon works.

If I were to follow Marvel Comics via Mastodon, boosted a post, then my followers would see the post, just as they would see the post if I made a screenshot from a Marvel tweet and posted that to Mastodon but Marvel posts would not just show up for random Mastodon users just because Marvel paid Meta to promote a post on Threads. Only Threads website and app users would see such posts.

It’s amazing how uninformed Fediverse users are of the basics of how the Fediverse works.

chrisbit , (edited )
@chrisbit@leminal.space avatar

There are myriad reasons not to federate with Threads.

unexposedhazard ,

Honestly surprised there are no ads yet. I thought that was the whole point of the website…

illi ,

They need to make it nice first, to reel people in. Once they are in and invested, that’s when ads start.

RootBeerGuy ,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Hey, I’ve seen that one!

MagicShel ,

Well that sounds enshitty.

qprimed ,

wait till you see the -ification.

tias ,

that’s when they start filtering out the genuine content and show you mostly promoted stuff

SlopppyEngineer ,

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.
Hadriscus ,

It’s the 3 D’s.

  1. Develop the product
  2. Draw people in
  3. Dump a nice steamy log on the whole thing
zecg ,
@zecg@lemmy.world avatar

You don’t raise temperature while the frog is in the pond.

ricdeh ,
@ricdeh@lemmy.world avatar

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!

Vanth ,
@Vanth@reddthat.com avatar

I interpreted it as you don’t heat the pot while the frog is still in the pond. You only apply heat slowly once the front is already in the pot.

Don’t load up the ads until the users are already on Threads. Wait until they are active on Threads, then crank up the ads when it’s more difficult for the users to leave.

riodoro1 ,

Tomorrow.

That’s when.

Stop using meta services.

AGuyAcrossTheInternet ,

Don't worry, Threads Pro will have you covered for an ad reduction for 3.99/mo.!
And Threads Pro Plus for 5.99/mo. will get rid of them all by 2030!

YeetPics ,
@YeetPics@mander.xyz avatar

Lmao, called it

314xel ,
@314xel@lemmy.world avatar

‘no immediate timeline’ toward monetization

Soo, starting tomorrow

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