Insert "Can't spell Threads without ads" joke here.
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2024
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If only they knew they could use "Threads" ad-free.
A lot faster than I expected. I mean its good for the fediverse anyways.
If you think the type of person who signs up for a Facebook product will flock over to the "real" fediverse the moment they are seeing ads (which they are most likely seeing everywhere else on the Internet, since this kind of low-information user is usually not even aware of the possibility of blocking ads), then I got a bridge to sell to you.
beauty. this should make leaving to other fediverse platforms more attractive to that audience.
People don't want the Fediverse. They want Twitter before Elon. They don't care that Meta owns Threads.
i dont care that meta owns threads. its just another server.
im going to be the change i want to see. i want to educate people on what they have the opportunity for and maybe not generalize on what an entire, diverse population of humans 'wants'.
I'm not sure. Maybe, for a small minority of people, that's the case. But for most... The reason they flocked there first, while there were plenty of fediverse options already, wasn't lack of ads. It was the opposite, ads from a platform with ads that led most people to threads in the first place.