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Threads spotted exploring ads, but says 'no immediate timeline' toward monetization (techcrunch.com)

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[–] MagicShel 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My instance is defederated from threads. At the time I mildly disagreed with that decision. Federated ads would vindicate that decision. I don't need threads content that badly.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t need threads content that badly.

You can block entire servers yourself. No need for an instance to defederate.

[–] MagicShel 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yes and this was my reasoning for saying it would be fine to federate. But I'll point out that federating ads would mean using my server's infrastructure to serve ads on behalf of someone else. That would cost the admin more money and would require more user donations to keep it going. So just being able to block isn't the necessary solution. Not sure that was even your point but I wanted to bring it up.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

But I’ll point out that federating ads would mean using my server’s infrastructure to serve ads on behalf of someone else.

Marvel Comics could make an account on any Mastodon server and make posts to promote an upcoming movie. That's a regular post, containing promotional material. What makes it an ad (or a sponsored post) in IG/Threads terms is to push such posts to users via targeting algorithms who didn't subscribe to Marvel Comics. Threads cannot do that via ActivityPub, so your Mastodon server cannot serve Threads ads.

[–] MagicShel 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Okay. Well I'm not that worried until I see where things are headed. I can see a lot of ways for things to go badly, but no point in borrowing trouble over it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

“Borrowing trouble” is a great phrase :D