Rails against social media.
Proceeds to put a bunch of fucking hashtags.
I never seriously used Twitter, but aren’t hashtags for indexing and search? Kinda need them there unless you enjoy screaming into the abyss, no?
I am guessing it’s Mastodon. They have mastadon in their username and have a domain behind it.
It’s Lemmy but for Twitter.
Yep, and Https://infosec.exchange instance
Edit: link to the toot (or whatever they’re called in Mastodon): https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/113136555818743388
I mean, there is still kind of a point being made with respect to monetization of social media… something which is insanely controversial on Mastodon.
Bring up something more minor like showing ads to cover server costs and it’s like tossing a grenade in and shutting the door.
Same as TV has done for 70 years and radio for a 100.
You get entertainment, the company sells your attention. If you don’t like it you don’t use it.
Exactly the same model as reddit as well, with the addition of useless internet points in exchange of content to fuel the entertainment.
If the product is free, the user is the product
No, the adverts are the product.
This whole notion that nothing can be free needs to get in the bin.
Linux is free. Who’s selling the user data for that?
Lemmy is free, who’s the product there?
Yes, Facebook/Meta is a shady fucking company and they are indeed selling your data on top of the ads they sell, but don’t lump everything free into the same bucket.
Well, Linux really is just like a traditional product were the user pays to get their get their use cases supported. Except they’ve short-circuited the whole paying thing to where users directly hire people for the work (for the most part).
Neither Linux nor Lemmy are a multi-billion dollar company.
If the advertisements were the product, then the exchange would be give ad, receive money. The advertisers are both giving the ad and the money to Meta. The thing the advertisers receive for giving the money are the potential customers. Meta is exchanging money for users. You are the product.
Meta’s entire model is categorizing the users so effectively and giving the advertisers the tools to target the users who are most likely to spend money once they see the ad. The advertisers pay Meta for access to users as well as the data about all of the different ways that groups of users are categorized. Then the advertiser can make a new ad or new product that will appeal to either a wider audience, an audience that is willing to pay a far larger amount of money than something costs to produce, or both.
The users and their data are the product of nearly every profitable business that provides something free to users. It’s up to you to decide how you feel about that. Maybe you see an ad for something and think “That’s exactly what I’ve been looking for!” and happily pay for it. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.
only if you’re into LLM features and crypto wallets (it’s a recent change)
Meta makes more products than Facebook. What other than a communication platform does this person want in return for paying nothing?
A communication platform? Really? You’re gonna tell me you find it difficult to communicate if you uninstall Facebook from your fucking PHONE? You know, from the actual communication platform?
Fuck outta here with these shitty door-to-door salesman tactics.
Seems like this kinda post keeps on being published like we’re all suddenly understanding how the world works