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Honestly while there are plenty reasons to be concerned with what #Threads might do the biggest immediate concern for me personally is just if they are going to spam ads at me by having bot accounts that push spam to me in my mentions.... that would be a nightmare!
@freemo What if they just insert ads in user's toot? Nobody reads eula anymore, and they can ask permits from user and send toots containing ads and trackers. Then they will be all over the place.
@skyblond that would be just as bad for me... I would likely silence them if I could get the members of the servers to agree... mass spamming is just not something I'd be ok with.
@admitsWrongIfProven
I don't think Meta is that stupid. I suspect it'll be more like that their own software will show ads between the posts on their own servers. We wouldn't see this from here.
And even then they have to be careful since they confirmed in the news that their software will support people moving away to other instances. So, if they serve too many ads, it is bye bye users.
Speculation from my side, but hey.. everybody's still speculating now.
But if they do it that way then what would motivate anyone to stay on meta when they can get the same expiernce ad free by leaving and still talk to their friends on meta?
@freemo @trinsec @skyblond The usual would be extending the service with something that is somehow addictive to the users and incompatible with fediverse.
After all, we're dealing with pros here in terms of addicting users, i heard ex-facebook employees in a documentary saying "I know how it works, and i had to leave because i cannot control myself despite that." (or something to that meaning, don't remember the exact words).
