Quinten@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoDutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitterlemmy.worldimagemessage-square116fedilinkarrow-up1260arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1258arrow-down1imageDutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitterlemmy.worldQuinten@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square116fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareThteven@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoThe only way they would do that is if they could monetize it somehow.
minus-squaregarretble@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 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-up1·1 year agoIsn’t their entire strategy to fish people onto their site, make money that way? Twitter doesn’t pay them either.
minus-squarecacheson@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 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.
The only way they would do that is if they could monetize it somehow.
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.
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.