Threads is offically getting ads

[sunzu2@thebrainbin.org]

Remember to send financial support to your server

[lando55@lemmy.world]

Is this some fancy way of saying "Please tip your waitress"

[sirquacktheduck@lemmy.world]

Please tip your federatress

[flashmobofone@lemmy.world]

Mastodon isn't.

[moseschrute@lemmy.world]

Lemmy isn’t.

[allero@lemmy.today]

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.

[phlegmy@sh.itjust.works]

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

[rhoeri@lemmy.world]

Threads is still around?

[lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works]

I am in.

[renzev@lemmy.world]

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.

[landedgentry@lemmy.zip]

and then everyone completely forgot about

You need to expand your sources of information. Threads is shit, I agree, but it is actually getting solid usage. You’re going off vibes on places like Lemmy.

[tja@programming.dev]

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.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

I want to know how sloppy the MegaSlurpJob is first. Free is free, but I want to know how much value I'm getting first before committing.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Yup. If you only follow Lemmy, you'll be completely confused at:

• why Tesla/X/other Musk stuff still exists
• how Trump won if nobody supported him
• how Meta is still in business if the only thing people use is their cheap VR headsets

There's a lot of stuff we don't see here.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Toss a coin to your witcher (hardstyle remix).

[landedgentry@lemmy.zip]

Facebook is actually a bit of a mystery at this point. They stopped reporting DAU’s their numbers are so lackluster and they have burned a small nation’s budget on “The Metaverse” with nothing to show. Then they cut jobs, applaud, and stock goes up. A lot of folks are scratching their heads over but Wall Street loves it regardless.

[tja@programming.dev]

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).

[futatorius@lemm.ee]

So, owned by a collaborator and a shitty user experience.