*advertiser spends billions a year and spies on me through 30 different apps*
"d-do you want to buy... *looks at my receipt for a GPU purchased yesterday* do you want to buy a GPU?"
By secretly paying some creators to post on Threads, Meta is undermining trust in everyone's motivations. Suddenly everyone is assumed to be "engagement farming": https://werd.io/2024/threads-is-trading-trust-for-growth
They joked:
„If libraries were invented today they would be illegal.“
Well. It’s not a joke anymore:
https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-loses-hachette-books-case-appeal/
Others have said this, but the Internet Archive's appeals-court loss to Big Publishing is a disaster for everyone but the cartel of companies and a tiny number of A list authors.
The publishers will tolerate libraries only as long as they can control everything about how books can be loaned. If public libraries were being invented today, the cartel would make their core functions illegal.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235958/internet-archive-loses-appeal-ebook-lending
We talk a lot about the federation of Threads but it is incredible what @Flipboard has managed to do. A #fediverse app is literally an Editor’s Choice in the App Store because of the work they are doing.
Did you expect to see a fedi client sitting between Disney+ and Audible two years ago?
