@kissane This is a likely scenario in my view. What is being sold is attention. To direct our attention, corporate social media use our own posts to keep us engaged, and then present marketing messages around (and in) them.

So at the very least, fedi content flowing into Threads is just more interesting stuff for them to keep people's eyes on the platform.

@kissane I think a lot of it stems from people just not really understanding how platforms monetize social media. It's not the most transparent system, after all. But it's a pretty big leap to suppose that, since fediverse posts were made on non-commercial services, they CAN'T be monetized. And from my perspective, the very fact that Meta is attempting to federate suggests that they already see a way to profit off of the additional traffic.

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Most of the people I’ve seen making these assertions are basing them off what seems to be technical limits in primary linkages to ActivityPub which I don’t doubt developers are trying to make real and useful security goals. What they never seem to address are external secondary linkages like you (& many others like myself see) that may be used to steal data and void privacy & security.
They are technically correct but functionally mistaken.

@kissane I can't even get people to give coherent descriptions of what an ad is or isn't. I think every claim at this point is just reflexive defensiveness, on every side.

@kissane seriously. It seems obvious.