There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.

  • Ragnell@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This is true with Kbin and Lemmy, and Mastodon instances but Meta doesn’t have that mindset. They are going to have ads and are going to see users not on their instance as eyes that rightfully belong to them that are not set on those ads.

    • ch1cken@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      They are going to have ads

      And? If people decide to use their instance, they’re likely fine with seeing ads or being tracked, that’s their choice. For those who aren’t ok with that, myself included, don’t have to use the official instance. I don’t see what’s wrong with that.

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        1 year ago

        Again, from the user POV, yes, that is fine. From Meta POV, it’s incentive to try and lock as many eyes in as possible using tactics that we probably won’t think of because we aren’t able to think from the POV of being pure scum.