Exactly, due to metas nearly unlimited funding they can afford extra server strain for exclusive features that you'll miss out unless you're on threads
So, I will make no secret that I'm rolling my eyes at all of that marketing stuff that goes up every year. But I've been thinking, it doesn't have to be so superficial and pointless. Maybe there's some rare exception out there that took the opportunity to say or do something meaningful....
Why are we still pretending like brand visibility isn't important. Yes it's pandering to make you want to spend money, yes it's all "virtue signalling" bullshit - but it still goes to show they value and want our business. Many brands decided not to do anything remotely showing support for us this year and that should be worrying, yes they didn't do anything in the first place and obviously didn't have our back, but they still showed some form of representation for us and helped push us into the public so we don't have to hide. It's so ridiculous seeing young queer anticapitalists actively shit on the only goodwill rep we had in mainstream venues. They might not have meant anything to you but they sure as hell were good rep for normalization more than just bitching about how much you hate it on the internet.
Generative AI Goes 'MAD' When Trained on AI-Created Data Over Five Times (www.tomshardware.com)
Shit in -> shit out 📤
Theory: the only reason Meta cares about the fediverse / ActivityPub is so that threads isn't labeled a "gatekeeper" under the EU's new "Digital Markets Act" (yiffit.net)
Links to source articles below....
Pride Month wrapping up, have you seen any company or organisation do anything remotely meaningful?
So, I will make no secret that I'm rolling my eyes at all of that marketing stuff that goes up every year. But I've been thinking, it doesn't have to be so superficial and pointless. Maybe there's some rare exception out there that took the opportunity to say or do something meaningful....