Brands fed up with the instability at Twitter may flock to Meta's new offering
Brands fed up with the instability at Twitter may flock to Meta’s new offering
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I would rather not have Zuckerberg controlling more social platforms, but at the same time I really want Musk to crash and burn.
Rich business dudes threatening other rich business dudes with… business.
There’s not much “technology” in there.
I never thought I’d say this but Zuckerberg is the lesser of two evils. I don’t necessarily hope Threads is a huge success, but I will be quietly happy if it manages to drive the final nail into Twitter’s coffin just to teach the Muskrat a lesson.
Meta’s incursion in the fediverse might cause very bad effects, there’s nothing preventing them from spitting ads from their new platform to all other platforms compatible with it.
I really hope that if we come to that, admins will defederate immediately.
Nah admins/owners of instances are gonna get paid to stay
This is what I fear the most tbh
Then those instances will get defederated right along with Meta itself.
Ultimately, there’s very little friction for users when it comes to choosing which instance they want to “view” the Fediverse from, so if some of them are ad-laden and others are not they’ll gravitate to the non-ad-laden ones. This will be especially easy once account migration features get implemented.
Yeah this is the thing about the fediverse. As long as you can defederate there will always be an instance willing to provide that niche
That is true, the nature of the fediverse does mean that you won’t have to interact with fedbook’s server if you don’t want to.
They’re going to quickly realize they’re already reaching that audience via Facebook; the people using this service will be the same people.
They might keep those users more engaged with this new app though. The Twitter format might be more successful for facilitating outrage and arguments than the Facebook format is.
And more engagement means more adverts shown and thus more revenue.
Interesting that Twitter is becoming more of a walled garden and the biggest walled garden is looking to create a lesser walled garden.
Anyone who uses that platform is an absolute fucking zucker.
zuck my tongue is kinda funny though
I’m fine with any most thing that shows you cannot enable harm-to-discourse as much as Musk has. I would sooner them come to Zuckerberg than crawling back to Twitter because it didn’t have an alternative. Twitter is very much a walking corpse right now, but something else coming along to snatch the could-be advertisers secure that it can stay in its fucking pit. (unless various sus governments still somehow see use in keeping it propped up)
It really sucks that the only thing they can think of to monetize their platform is --advertising--
Well I think it’s kinda hard to imagine a free service that doesn’t do either data collection or advertising (read: you are the product), with advertising it makes sense through being a more openly a field that has a lot of money circulating around it, and while I don’t think the average person cares about data collection to the point where they’ll ignore products that do it, it at least serves as bad publicity
The only other viable model I can personally think of is subscriptions, I find it hard to imagine that only forcing big corporations to pay to use your service, or that having it be donationbased would work with the amount of manpower and serverspace these products from within Silicon Valley typically host that need a lot of money every month until they stop existing
All of the automotive forums I ever used did make their money from advertising, BUT it was relevant advertising. Either it was sponsored by a vendor that specialized in that platform (ipdusa.com) or outright owned by a vendor (modernperformance.com)
These vendors also sold products that the users inherently wanted to buy and discuss. It was a symbiotic relationship. The discussion forum facilitated the business by allowing users to discuss their interest in an automotive platform.
I believe this is why the LTT platform still exists as well.
Hmm, the headline seemed to suggest Zuckerberg planned on buying and absorbing twitter. But no, he plans on releasing his own twitter known as THREADS
I wonder if people would consider switching to yet another platform if they havent already fled twitter. People who consider musk to be toxic probably dont think too highly of facebook, but who knows. If he can snag convince enough celebrities to migrate maybe? (I doubt it)