They’re not even hiding the enshittification strategy. They’re practically teaching you the principles up front.

“First we trap you, then we exploit you. Duh.”

Consumer value as in number of valuable consumers we can grift later

Step 2 of the enshittification.

Dear Pikachu, of course you are surprised. Learn how to expect and evade Team Rocket first.

So did Facebook. It's the old drug dealer gambit: first hit is on the house, after that, you gotta pay.

Still no reason to defederate, huh?

No, it's not. Ads can't federate. Threads has no control over my Mastodon feed and Lemmy can't interact with Threads at all. Following Threads accounts from Mastodon is effectively an ad blocker.

I'm changing my vote in the Agora from "yes defederate" to "Hell fucking yes defederate.'

I haven't used threads, I just assumed it already had ads

Pretty much the exact same thought I had upon seeing the title.

There must be an enshitification chart where time is on one axis and DAU is on another, where it's considered the perfect time to enshitifiy due to peak username or some shit

Maybe in the future, but for now it looks like they already amnounced their next step to how they'll monetize their platform.

Bluesky has revealed how it plans to start making money without necessarily having to rely on ads. The platform will remain free to use for everyone, though it’s working on a premium subscription that will provide access to profile customization tools (remember when Myspace offered that for free?) and higher quality video uploads.

Source: https://www.engadget.com/social-media/blueskys-upcoming-premium-plan-wont-give-paid-users-special-treatment-193800247.html

I thought it was unsuccessful as xitter was already the preferred platform

It isn't anymore, ad I expect that to accelerate. The Guardian just announced today that they will no longer use it, for example (although individual journalists may still choose to do so)

Meta auto created threads accounts for all instagram users iirc so they kinda forced thwir way into the market by pre inflating their numbers.

Why is it shortsighted? A service like this costs money to run, and if you won't pay for it, someone else has to.

I kinda wish more federated services also had built in, optional support for directly paying the people hosting the service and infrastructure.

You know that blocking threads account-wide on Mastodon 2 clicks and a confirmation?