That was quick.
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I'm honestly amazed they didn't have ads out of the gate, Meta's whole schtick is advertising and data.
They thought they could EEE the fediverse first.
Turns out people on decentralised social media aren't totally fucking brain dead and could see it coming a mile away.
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Facebook famously didn't have ads for a long time, even when people were pressuring Zuck to add them to keep the site from going running out of capital. Call it a loss leader, call it enshittification or market capture, whatever. Most companies that can afford to will start out being really great to their users, and once they have captured a section of the market, they start clawing more of that value back for themselves and their investors.
You've got ads. Eventually but full-blown ads.
Not just HV but full-blown ads.
That didn’t take long
Good, the sooner they run it into the ground the better.
Still doesn't support instance migration tho, hmm
Nice. Get ready to scale your servers, folks!
You overestimate how many people use threads. It's mostly corporate accounts that post but don't use the platform, and a bunch of bros that click ads to begin with.
I got out just in time, it seems.
How much longer will Bluesky survive without doing the same?
It's either ads or a paid subscription. One of the two are inevitable, because running infrastructure to support millions of users ain't free.
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lol. I mean. It was inevitable considering every other shit meta product.