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minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·3 days agoStill no reason to defederate, huh?
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·3 days agoI’m changing my vote in the Agora from “yes defederate” to "Hell fucking yes defederate.’
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days ago Still no reason to defederate, huh? No, it’s not. Ads can’t federate. Threads has no control over my Mastodon feed and Lemmy can’t interact with Threads at all. Following Threads accounts from Mastodon is effectively an ad blocker.
minus-squareLazycog@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 days agoMight be a stupid question, but can’t threads just post ads as “posts” via activityPub? On mastodon they would appear as toots? Was just remembering how reddit introduced ads as basically promoted posts and recall facebook doing the same. I sure fucking hope not.
minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoHow do you know that Threads won’t inject ads as posts?
Still no reason to defederate, huh?
I’m changing my vote in the Agora from “yes defederate” to "Hell fucking yes defederate.’
No, it’s not. Ads can’t federate. Threads has no control over my Mastodon feed and Lemmy can’t interact with Threads at all. Following Threads accounts from Mastodon is effectively an ad blocker.
Might be a stupid question, but can’t threads just post ads as “posts” via activityPub? On mastodon they would appear as toots?
Was just remembering how reddit introduced ads as basically promoted posts and recall facebook doing the same.
I sure fucking hope not.
How do you know that Threads won’t inject ads as posts?