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
@matt@oslo.town @ben@werd.social
bearing in mind we're talking about a company that compiles dossiers on anyone it has ever had a sniff of.
Only ever once clicked on a facebook link? there's a dataentry with a unique id assigned to the ip you were on at the time of access.
Those billions of users that flocked to threads? they counted unique data points from instagram and facebook interactions along with the user accounts as if they were users, including that one time you clicked on a link I mentioned earlier.
@alterelefant@mastodontech.de @matt@oslo.town @ben@werd.social
Oh absolutely.
They would make the Stasi nervous.