Mastodon is interoperable, decentralized, operated by a nonprofit, lively, and, ACTUALLY, isn't hard to use. So why is everyone championing Threads as the main Twitter alternative?
Money. With no ads no company has any interest in it. Companies could very well make their own instances and advertise there but no one would follow, unless the ads had any value e.g. a bit of comedy or feel goods. No company wants to put any money into old school advertising they’d rather just pay Google or Facebook to shotgun ads into people’s eyes.
I seen a talented analysts leveraging this knowledge and making decent advertising firms. But that’s just conjecture.
I really hope not. I’d rather the business and influencer stuff stay on a platform that they can monetize and not be a force to enshittify the fediverse.
Money. With no ads no company has any interest in it. Companies could very well make their own instances and advertise there but no one would follow, unless the ads had any value e.g. a bit of comedy or feel goods. No company wants to put any money into old school advertising they’d rather just pay Google or Facebook to shotgun ads into people’s eyes.
I seen a talented analysts leveraging this knowledge and making decent advertising firms. But that’s just conjecture.
Eventually they will join, but will take a while…
I really hope not. I’d rather the business and influencer stuff stay on a platform that they can monetize and not be a force to enshittify the fediverse.