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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

look at what happened Threads.net. Big company joins the Fediverse and instead of celebrating, everybody starts thinking about defederating them. This approach is doomed to fail if it ever gets popular.

Let's not forget threads planned to monetize every interaction it was aware of, regardless of any direct interaction with Facebook/Meta. The public pushback probably went a long way towards setting a precedent against that sort of activity. We're really breaking new ground here and have a chance to take back what is increasingly an essential function of society from folks who would rather fill every waking moment of your life with ads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Let’s not forget threads planned to monetize every interaction it was aware of,

So does GMail. Making money running a bit of the network should not be a problem, quite the opposite, that just means the network won't run out of money. This kind of arbitrary enforcing of political ideology should have no place this low in the network structure.

Let’s not forget we’re really breaking new ground here

We really aren't. It's just repeating what EMail and Usenet have done for 40 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

GMail does not build an ad profile based on your emails. Let alone emails sent between two people outside of gmails network. This is absolutely a false equivalence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

what political ideology