I’m still on the fence about that being a good thing. I’m kind of looking forward to being able to see Twitter style content from major companies but without ads via my Mastodon account.
Right after I logged into Threads, with a new account, by first 2 pages were posts from Zuck, Wendy’s, Netflix, a Facebook fanboy, and another Wendy’s ad. I tried to screen shot it, but the shit app realized I was idle, and used that as an opportunity to refresh the content.
30 million people jumped into this stupid thing this AM.
I wouldn’t mind having the ability to send angry messages to them again, especially if me not following them also means I don’t ever see their content in my feed.
I’m still on the fence about that being a good thing. I’m kind of looking forward to being able to see Twitter style content from major companies but without ads via my Mastodon account.
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that’s the thing, I see all content from major companies as ads.
Right after I logged into Threads, with a new account, by first 2 pages were posts from Zuck, Wendy’s, Netflix, a Facebook fanboy, and another Wendy’s ad. I tried to screen shot it, but the shit app realized I was idle, and used that as an opportunity to refresh the content.
30 million people jumped into this stupid thing this AM.
I wouldn’t mind having the ability to send angry messages to them again, especially if me not following them also means I don’t ever see their content in my feed.
Why do you think a large corporation would just share their content to people who aren’t viewing their ads?
They’re not just being generous. Corporations are not benevolent. So what are they expecting to get from it?
Here’s the answer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish