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Threads is offically getting ads
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The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
Zuck said from the beginning that advertising would come when they reached N number of users. I wanna say he said billion, but I'm not interested in any of their platforms and never really cared either way.