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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 20:02:12 JST goatsarah
   All hail the arrival of Threads, perhaps the most unfortunately named and most pre-blocked social media platform ever, at least until Elon decides to launch a fediverse platform and name it “Syphilis” or something
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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 20:50:41 JST goatsarah

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     • Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺

     @scorpil Because Facebook is, first and foremost, in the business of selling adverts and demographic information to advertisers. In order to do that they need something to entice people to the site. Traditionally they have done this by managing a large social media platform. This requires them to spend money on servers and engage in moderation, which is hard.

     But without content, no ad revenue.

     What they’re literally doing here is simply outsourcing the data centre and moderation requirement to tens of thousands of fediverse admins while they sell OUR USERS to advertisers.

     And I’m not working for fucking Facebook for free.

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     Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (scorpil@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 20:50:42 JST Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺

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     @goatsarah why are people pre-blocking it tho?

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     Tattie (tattie@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 20:52:50 JST Tattie

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     @goatsarah introducing our new social media service, Watership Down

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     acb (acb@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 20:53:37 JST acb

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     • Charlie Stross

     @goatsarah @cstross “Go viral on Syphilis, an X Corp product”

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     GadgetGeek 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (gadggeek@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 23:18:45 JST GadgetGeek 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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     @goatsarah viral conent about as popular as Musk himself.

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     aaron (aaronishere@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 03:30:22 JST aaron

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     • Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺

     @scorpil

     @goatsarah

     They don't just serve ads - they sell sentiment data. Have you ever posted somewhere like Mumsnet? If you did, a data agency picked up how you felt about whatever you were talking about and they fed it back to companies who like to sell things to you.

     They built a profile of you, who you interacted with and how, and they learned quite quickly how best to make you buy things. It didn't need to be an ad served there and then in the feed (though the algorithm does use this) but make no mistake, you became the product.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 03:30:22 JST goatsarah

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     • Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺
     • aaron
     @aaronIsHere @scorpil You're seriously asking a trans woman if she uses Mumsnet? That's ... special.
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     Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (scorpil@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 03:30:24 JST Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺

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     @goatsarah now that's an explanation I can understand, thanks.

     However, we don't know yet how exactly Meta plans to implement monetization. If they show ads to the #threads users - by all means, I wouldn't care. I won't be using that app anyway and it does not take advantage of the #fediverse at large imo.

     If they decide to push ads through federation protocol then they are a bad actor and need to be blocked.

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     aaron (aaronishere@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 04:05:53 JST aaron

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     • Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺

     @goatsarah

     @scorpil

     That's... exclusionary and shortsighted. Many people - myself included (a childless man) use Mumsnet. If you also take the time to read what I read you'll see I wrote "somewhere LIKE Mumsnet".

     Finally before I just go ahead and block you for rampant stupidity, the term "special" is used as an ableist slur where I'm from and I absolutely do not appreciate your disgusting behaviour.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 04:05:53 JST goatsarah

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     • Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺
     • aaron
     @aaronIsHere @scorpil Oh do fuck off, you tedious wanker.
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     Monsieur Valentine 🇺🇦 (valeg@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 07:14:38 JST Monsieur Valentine 🇺🇦

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     • Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺

     @scorpil @goatsarah Well, what else could I be? I'm Ukrainian 😄

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     Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (scorpil@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 07:14:39 JST Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺

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     • Monsieur Valentine 🇺🇦

     @valeg @goatsarah heh, you’re a glass half full kind of person aren’t you 😆

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     Monsieur Valentine 🇺🇦 (valeg@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 07:14:40 JST Monsieur Valentine 🇺🇦

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     • Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺

     @scorpil @goatsarah it works both ways. Maybe Instagram peeps will throw off the shackles of Meta and like it here, who knows.

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     Monsieur Valentine 🇺🇦 (valeg@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 07:14:41 JST Monsieur Valentine 🇺🇦

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     • Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺

     @scorpil @goatsarah knee-jerk and weak reaction. Threats from Meta/AP have been greatly exaggerated.

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     Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (scorpil@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 07:14:41 JST Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺

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     • Monsieur Valentine 🇺🇦

     @valeg @goatsarah the only threat I see is getting more instagram-y content here... Which is annoying but hey everyone curates the content they consume, outright blocking a whole service is an overkill imo.

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     Gigi 🥚 (gigi@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 07:16:18 JST Gigi 🥚

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     • Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺
     • aaron

     @aaronIsHere @goatsarah @scorpil

     (Pretty sure the issue is Mumsnet is legendarily transphobic af.)

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 07:16:18 JST goatsarah

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     • Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺
     • Gigi 🥚
     • aaron
     @Gigi @scorpil @aaronIsHere It is, and I’m sure the now server blocked concern troll knew exactly that. I have so very little time for disingenuous wankers.
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     aaron (aaronishere@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 07:16:19 JST aaron

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     • Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺

     @goatsarah
     @scorpil

     Oh while we're on the subject of you being a dickhead plenty of trans women can be and are mums - you absolute fucking idiot.

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     TrashkittenDeluxe (trashkittendeluxe@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 07:17:38 JST TrashkittenDeluxe

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     • Scorpil 🇺🇦🇪🇺
     • aaron

     @aaronIsHere @goatsarah @scorpil Mumsnet is notoriously a transphobic hotbed and terf gathering spot. Bringing it up around trans people, then getting defensive when people point out how that's problematic, is incredibly tone-deaf

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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 14:31:53 JST GNU Too

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     • Monsieur Valentine 🇺🇦
     @valeg and if they weren't, we'd still have Diaspora*
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     Robert James (fulner@social.mojo.fyi)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 14:40:06 JST Robert James

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     • GNU Too
     @gnu2 well at least that's more used that #GNUsocial ;-)