Quinten@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoDutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitterlemmy.worldimagemessage-square241fedilinkarrow-up12.55Kfile-textcross-posted to: doingmypart@lemmy.worlddiducthis@lemmy.piperservers.net
arrow-up12.55KimageDutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitterlemmy.worldQuinten@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square241fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: doingmypart@lemmy.worlddiducthis@lemmy.piperservers.net
minus-squareThteven@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoThe only way they would do that is if they could monetize it somehow.
minus-squarecacheson@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoIt’d be another method to drive traffic to their websites and gain more ad revenue. Same as maintaining a presence on twitter or facebook, or providing an RSS feed.
minus-squaregarretble@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoYeah totally. I had the thought that since Threads “doesn’t want politics” on their platform, and Twitter is trash, maaaaybe activity pub could be a thing. But you are right: they won’t do anything if it won’t make money.
minus-squareJourei@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoIsn’t their entire strategy to fish people onto their site, make money that way? Twitter doesn’t pay them either.
The only way they would do that is if they could monetize it somehow.
It’d be another method to drive traffic to their websites and gain more ad revenue. Same as maintaining a presence on twitter or facebook, or providing an RSS feed.
Yeah totally.
I had the thought that since Threads “doesn’t want politics” on their platform, and Twitter is trash, maaaaybe activity pub could be a thing.
But you are right: they won’t do anything if it won’t make money.
Isn’t their entire strategy to fish people onto their site, make money that way? Twitter doesn’t pay them either.