Threads is Trading Trust For Growth (werd.io) 37
Ben Werdmuller, an entrepreneur who leads tech for ProPublica, writes on the trust crisis brewing in Meta's Threads app. He posted a quick comment about the Internet Archive's legal troubles, only to find it blew up in unexpected ways. Turns out, Threads' algorithm tossed his post to folks way outside his usual crowd, and they weren't happy about the lack of context. He writes: The comments that really surprised me were the ones that accused me of engagement farming. I've never received these before, and it made me wonder about the underlying assumptions. Why would this be engagement farming? Why would someone do this? Why would they assume that about me? Turns out, Meta's been secretly paying select "creators" up to $5,000 per viral post, turning the platform into a digital gold rush. Now, every post is suspect.
Trust? (Score:5, Insightful)
Who the hell is left on the planet dumb enough to trust anything from the Facebook crew?
Re: Trust? (Score:2)
No shit. What fucking idiot trusts any social media.
Re: Trust? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah I bet Slashdot is working on a super-complicated engagement-maximizing algorithm, but it's on the back burner until they can figure out apostrophes.
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If you haven't seen any change in climate, you're young or oblivious. Climates have changed noticeably in your lifetime if you're more than a few decades old and have a functional brain.
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WTF? Random nonsense accusations?
AC posters get dumber all the time.
Re: Trust? (Score:2)
By he has hair now. And a tan!
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Probably the same people who still use Wells Fargo.
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Sir Trump does not sound like a third grader (Score:2)
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He sounds like a fourth grader. When his speech was analyzed that's what he talks at.
That's because he's used to talking to bankers and high equity real estate people. There's something to be concluded there.
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Instead Trump rambled in the most incoherent fashion imaginable
For those who are wondering, here are the convicted felon's own words [imgur.com] on the subject.
Re: Low information voters (Score:1)
They're used, among other reasons, to make imports more expensive with the hope that some American company will think it's worthwhile to compete on price.
You need a really light touch with these because you're only motivating said companies
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What makes his idiotic notion of tariffs even more jawdropping is when he bragged how much money we were getting from the tariffs. Yes, you put a tax on the American people. Congratulations.
Yes, deftly used tariffs can, somewhat, be useful, not in any notion that he thinks is real.
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neglecting to mention that it would cost an average American family over $4,000 a year
That's the first time I've ever heard you mention the cost of a government project as a negative thing. The $4,000 a year can be done by taxing the rich their fair share.
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Who the hell is left on the planet dumb enough to trust anything from people on the internet?
FTFY. This isn't a Facebook crew problem. It's an everywhere problem. The internet is just jammed full of untrustworthy rubbish on literally every platform. Yeah even on Slashdot when you browse at exactly the wrong moment you find the occasional idiots or Putin lackies with mod points just turn the comments section into garbage.
People are the worst, period.
What did you expect from Meta[stasize]? (Score:1)
Is anyone really surprised? Facebook and its ilk (ie. anything the Zuck has regurgitated) have been a cancer on the internet.
Wait a minute (Score:2, Insightful)
>He posted a quick comment about the Internet Archive's legal troubles, only to find it blew up in unexpected ways. Turns out, Threads' algorithm tossed his post to folks way outside his usual crowd, and they weren't happy about the lack of context.
So this guy discovered that his posts are public and recommended to people based on how system's algorithm decides? Something that is literally the point of X and all of its clones and has been working like this since Twitter's modern form came about what, a d
Just merge Threads with Instagram (Score:2)
Insta has better photos, Threads has better commenting and you don't have to post "See link in Bio", you can just add a link. I wanted to like Threads, but they can't get critical mass to make it interesting enough.
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It will lose Zuck money left and right,
You mean unlike Twitter which is still cash flow negative [reuters.com] and which advertisers are leaving [cnn.com] because of the crap being posted, right? The company which has lost at least 75% of its value [arstechnica.com] since that pedo guy bought it, right? Is it any wonder when that weirdo tells advertisers to go fuck themselves [theverge.com] because they don't want to advertise on his failing company.
Re: Threads is X without the free speech. (Score:1)
Really, the only positive thing about Threads (Score:2)
... is that it isn't run by Elon Musk. But that doesn't mean it's not a cesspool... it's just a different cesspool.
Change Your Settings. Problem Solved. (Score:2)
What I see is a clueless boomer who doesn't understand their own account settings, left themselves world readable, and then wrote an article complaining when people read the post they'd left out for the whole world to read.