Honestly while there are plenty reasons to be concerned with what 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.

@freemo @skyblond If Threads end up to be a ad spamming machine, I'd gladly agree to a silence/suspension.

@trinsec @freemo @skyblond I'd guess it'll be when, not if. And it might be be gradual at first.
The question i see if it should be enacted on one or a few examples or depending on a rate of spam.

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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.

@freemo @skyblond

@trinsec

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?

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@freemo @admitsWrongIfProven @skyblond

Remember that there's part of the Twitter crowd lamenting about having to choose a server? Oh oh oh, so difficult.

Chances are they probably have Instagram. Hey, we can join this stupid Fediverse! And we don't have to choose a server! HAH THAT WILL TEACH THEM! (Let's ignore the fact that Instagram is basically 'their server' and in a way they did choose.)

There are always people too stupid to poop. But they can at least join the Fediverse and chances are they are already so used to ads... I mean, there are still people on Facebook, no?

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@trinsec @freemo @skyblond Hm, now i am waiting for signs here similar to those on public toilets.

But good point, the "have to delete your insta" will keep anyone who actually uses insta there.

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