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
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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
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Shannon Skinner (she/her)replied to Ben Werdmuller last edited by
@ben
Meta inserts Thread posts made by accounts that I don't follow into my Facebook feed. That tells me all I need to know about how great Threads is.I don't even want to be on Facebook, except I check it for posts from family. Now that I have convinced my family to use Signal for chats instead, I have almost no reason to log on to Facebook at all.
I don't trust Meta even one iota. The other day, I saw an ad inserted into my Facebook notifications! Gross.
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Jonreplied to Shannon Skinner (she/her) last edited by
Oh I didn't know they were doing that. . And yeah, when I wrote about the debates on fedierating with Threads last summer one of my sections was "Wait a second. Why should anybody trust Facebook, Instagram, or Meta?"
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Doctor Popularreplied to Ben Werdmuller last edited by
@ben I hadn't really thought of this before. To be honest, when I see some random contextless shit in my Threads feed, I tend to assume it's engagement bait.
I understood the context of your original post, so didn't think anything of it, but now I'll try to be more aware of this trend when I see something promoted in my feed that feels intentionally vague. They might not necessarily be baiting.
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Mia Quagliarelloreplied to Ben Werdmuller last edited by
@ben I saw this unfold in real-time and was wondering how you were holding up!
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Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:replied to Ben Werdmuller last edited by
@ben
I'm somewhat amused by the one comment that "you're making this platform worse".Like, he's so close yet so far away, blaming the player without considering the nature of the game.
This is why for-profit social media networks can't work.
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Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:replied to Ben Werdmuller last edited by [email protected]
@ben
I'm somewhat amused by the one comment that "you're making this platform worse". Like, he's so close yet so far away, blaming the player without considering the nature of the game: #Facebook is making their own Twitter-clone worse by paying people to do chase metrics instead of making good posts.This is why for-profit #SocialMedia networks just don't work. It is central to their very nature that they just do not adequately perform their own function.
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Josh Riversreplied to Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon: last edited by
@Raccoon @ben I so deeply agree. I see so many people who want to create something they love and they get lured in by the ease and reach of “free” publishing platforms. Then they get angry and bewildered by the way their “content” doesn’t get rewarded, monetarily or otherwise. Those people did not start with the goal of creating filler material to shove between advertisements. They had something to say. Knowledge sharing, expression, art, and community building would all be more fulfilling if they were unlinked from commercial motives, but “social media” only works when wrapped with ad money. Community funded networks like mastodon are our best hope yet of finding another way to connect with each other.