I’m just waiting for Bluesky to introduce ads.
Maybe in the future, but for now it looks like they already amnounced their next step to how they’ll monetize their platform.
Bluesky has revealed how it plans to start making money without necessarily having to rely on ads. The platform will remain free to use for everyone, though it’s working on a premium subscription that will provide access to profile customization tools (remember when Myspace offered that for free?) and higher quality video uploads.
remember when Myspace offered that for free?
This seems like a strange gripe. If their business model was sustainable, more of us would be reading this on myspace right now.
May all of the for-profit websites chip and shatter.
We don’t need them. We have never needed them.
Let’s take the internet back to when it was a place where people ran websites for things they cared about.
Fuck profits, fuck corporations, fuck capitalism. Solidarity across the working class.
“Since our priority is to build consumer value first and foremost, there are no ads or monetization features currently on Threads,” a Meta spokesperson said in an emailed response.
The spokesperson then continued, “But only until early 2025. Then we’ll be throwing consumer value in the trash and lighting it on fire. It will be very exciting.”
They’re not even hiding the enshittification strategy. They’re practically teaching you the principles up front.
“First we trap you, then we exploit you. Duh.”
Is it enshittification if it’s shit from the start?
Fuck Mark Zuckerberg. Fuck Jack Dorsey. Fuck Daniel Ek. Fuck Elon Musk. Fuck Peter Thiel. Fuck Jeff Bezos. Fuck Steven Huffman.
& all the rest.
Still no reason to defederate, huh?
I’m changing my vote in the Agora from “yes defederate” to "Hell fucking yes defederate.’
There aren’t any ads on Mastodon. :)
The only surprising thing is that it took this long.
There must be an enshitification chart where time is on one axis and DAU is on another, where it’s considered the perfect time to enshitifiy due to peak username or some shit
Imagine that someone has that job. They make and present that chart in meetings. That person exists and is why we can’t have nice things.
