It’s happening.
      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
        17·
        6 days ago

        The enshittification is carried over from other products. They’re meta, so anything they launch is partly along the path already, because they can artificially boost the launch numbers with cross-platform promotion, and because everyone already knows what assholes they are, they’re starting off with a lot of goodwill lost.

        Basically, just slapping a new name and a new account creation process on some new features in their social network, is not enough to make it a new network.

  • airportline@lemmy.mlEnglish
    741·
    7 days ago

    Is Threads even a good enough product for users to be willing to endure ads?

        • Tja@programming.devEnglish
          7·
          6 days ago

          I mean… either they introduce ads, or they start charging for the service.

          VC funding only lasts so long, and they have bills to pay (and probably shares to sell).

          • baggachipz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            4·
            6 days ago

            And that’s the problem. Sure, it’s better than threads or xitter now. The business model dictates that it will sink to the same level.

        • Delusion6903@discuss.onlineEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          And that’s when I leave Bluesky too. Meta goes down within a month and the clock is ticking for Bluesky. I’ll stay in the fediverse.

    • Delusion6903@discuss.onlineEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      It allows no external browser and if you leave the app and return the page automatically refreshes so you lose your place.

  • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
    532·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • Rykzon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      27·
      7 days ago

      Probably more about their general user tracking than that tbh. Meta has always had profiles for everyone because of Facebook/meta integrations on every website

    • Tja@programming.devEnglish
      39·
      6 days ago

      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.worksEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        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.

        • Tja@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          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).

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
    23·
    6 days ago

    When threads first saw its posts on Lemmy [when Lemmy first started posting about threads], I was reading one and a coworker looked over my shoulder and gasped. I looked up at her, and she said, “what is that?? And why is the logo a pubic hair?!” Good times.

    Edit. Clarification.

    • renzev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      6 days ago

      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.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          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.

  • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    4 days ago

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

    Also, who names their app after a downer post-apocalyptic film where everyone dies?