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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

I'm just waiting for Bluesky to introduce ads.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 14 hours ago

I’m more surprised to discover now that it launched without ads

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

More short sighted corporate greed. It's a great period to try and pull in Twitter users but instead let's add ads for a short term bump in profits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

They'd have to implement ads eventually anyway. Companies do have budgets, and the money to run Threads has to come from somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

Companies can and do make a loss to gain market share, they ae currently doing it with the metaverse and AI.

As twitter struggles under the spastic, they should be incentivising the move for users.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I wish more federated services had built in (optional) support for enabling ads so I didn't have to constantly worry about them shutting down. Especially peer tube.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago

I kinda wish more federated services also had built in, optional support for directly paying the people hosting the service and infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

yeah that is why i chose not to donate to the instance is that my home any longer.

when they decided to keep federated with threads they decided that they didn't need my donations.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago

You know that blocking threads account-wide on Mastodon 2 clicks and a confirmation?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 23 hours ago

How about ads on the hood of my car got when I'm doing oil changes? 😔😭

Or maybe 🤔, and I hope I don't offend my fellow human beings in Ukraine, but what if meta donated drones to Ukraine where they would blowup tanks and the explosion would be in the form of a dawn commercial? Or Downy! Or Mr. Clean... somebody has to Remove all the stains 😔.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago

TIL Threads didn't have ads

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

There aren't any ads on Mastodon. :)

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