All hail the arrival of Threads, perhaps the most unfortunately named and most pre-blocked social media platform ever, at least until Elon decides to launch a fediverse platform and name it โSyphilisโ or something
@Scorpil ๐บ๐ฆ๐ช๐บ Because Facebook is, first and foremost, in the business of selling adverts and demographic information to advertisers. In order to do that they need something to entice people to the site. Traditionally they have done this by managing a large social media platform. This requires them to spend money on servers and engage in moderation, which is hard.
But without content, no ad revenue.
What theyโre literally doing here is simply outsourcing the data centre and moderation requirement to tens of thousands of fediverse admins while they sell OUR USERS to advertisers.
And Iโm not working for fucking Facebook for free.
the next thing Elon will destroy is CRISPR Hacking as he attempts to turn himself into a sex god cause billions of $$$ is no longer a sure thing aphrodisiac
@scorpil Because #Facebook/#Meta is intentionally turning everything it touches to shit and it is about to touch the fediverse with its filthy pseudopods.
(I didn't "#preblock", yet, and I am not sure if it makes sense, but I am considering.)
So, here's my question about all of this. Does anyone else think that there is something fundamentally wrong about only two giant corporations owning the entire global social media market? And does anyone out there ever question why government regulators aren't doing their Goddamned job about putting the breaks on trusts and monopolies?
@aaronIsHere @scorpil the problem isn't whether or not trans women are mums, plenty are, the problem is mumsnet isn't known as prosecco stormfront for nothing. Its such a hive of TERFs that trans people don't go there. That said you're right that facebook's whole deal is building widely sourced targeted ad data and we should block them for that on principle.
@aaronIsHere @scorpil Mumsnet is notoriously a transphobic hotbed and terf gathering spot. Bringing it up around trans people, then getting defensive when people point out how that's problematic, is incredibly tone-deaf
@Gigi ๐ฅ @Scorpil ๐บ๐ฆ๐ช๐บ @aaron It is, and Iโm sure the now server blocked concern troll knew exactly that. I have so very little time for disingenuous wankers.
Conor Titania Mc Bride
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Sarah Brown likes this.
Fuzzysteve
in reply to Conor Titania Mc Bride • • •acb
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Sarah Brown reshared this.
Tina Stormcaller
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Sarah Brown likes this.
Tattie (old account)
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Sarah Brown likes this.
canusfeminacanis
in reply to Tattie (old account) • • •The copse. The warren. The clueless developers. The factions.
It's all there! ๐
Monsieur Valentine ๐บ๐ฆ
Unknown parent • • •Alexandra Lanes
Unknown parent • • •Monsieur Valentine ๐บ๐ฆ
Unknown parent • • •Shimriez likes this.
wauz
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •@Nike_Leonhard
Sarah Brown
Unknown parent • •@Scorpil ๐บ๐ฆ๐ช๐บ Because Facebook is, first and foremost, in the business of selling adverts and demographic information to advertisers. In order to do that they need something to entice people to the site. Traditionally they have done this by managing a large social media platform. This requires them to spend money on servers and engage in moderation, which is hard.
But without content, no ad revenue.
What theyโre literally doing here is simply outsourcing the data centre and moderation requirement to tens of thousands of fediverse admins while they sell OUR USERS to advertisers.
And Iโm not working for fucking Facebook for free.
like this
Moondust, Shimriez and Spencer like this.
reshared this
Nemo, David JONES, Oli, rootfake, Sym (public node), Nire Bryce, Gigi ๐๐ซ, Woody, GreenSkyOverMe (Monika), ashley, pawkypaul, gizmomathboy, FC, Pat, Christopher E. Stith, geolaw and Oren Lew reshared this.
Evelyn C. Leeper
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Monsieur Valentine ๐บ๐ฆ
Unknown parent • • •Sarah Brown likes this.
Medea Vanamonde๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ โ
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •GadgetGeek ๐ช๐บ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Sarah Brown likes this.
quangobaud
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •โข๏ธ๐๐ค
Rep Rap Ryn :3
Unknown parent • • •chris@strafpla.net
Unknown parent • • •@scorpil Because #Facebook/#Meta is intentionally turning everything it touches to shit and it is about to touch the fediverse with its filthy pseudopods.
(I didn't "#preblock", yet, and I am not sure if it makes sense, but I am considering.)
chris@strafpla.net
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Sarah Brown
Unknown parent • •like this
Alexandra Lanes likes this.
Sarah Brown
Unknown parent • •like this
Alexandra Lanes likes this.
Dan Berky "ืื" โ MS ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ช ๐ฎ๐ฑ
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Gigi ๐โ๐ซ
Unknown parent • • •@aaronIsHere @scorpil
(Pretty sure the issue is Mumsnet is legendarily transphobic af.)
rootfake
Unknown parent • • •TrashkittenDeluxe
Unknown parent • • •Sarah Brown likes this.
Sarah Brown
in reply to Gigi ๐โ๐ซ • •GNU Too
in reply to Monsieur Valentine ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Steve Bellovin
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •