You can’t keep scrolling until you finish watching the ad.

You can’t keep scrolling until you finish watching the ad.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
    15·
    6 months ago

    They’re about to test the load-bearing capacity of all your normie friends and all the cool celebrities/hot thirst traps being on there. The end goal is a slot machine which shows only ads almost all the time, occasionally delivering a payoff of social or parasocial connection to someone you care about, but only enough to keep the majority of users hooked.

  • solsangraalEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    and they’ll only lose like 10 users. confoundingly everyone knows about enshittification and we watch it happen every day, but fake validation from fake friends apparently is about as easy to give up as meth

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      It’s easy to pile on, but I know some people who still use Instagram, and the verbs that they must embody when using the service are consuming and sharing.

      My guess is the 80/20 rule would apply here: a minority of the users are responsible for the majority of the content, while the majority of users actively or passively appreciate it.

      I’m just glad I don’t have the video bug, because that pretty much describes my role on the fedi - as an active consumer (I’m a serial commenter).

  • nick@midwest.socialEnglish
    51·
    6 months ago

    Yeah works for me, I barely ever check it anyway. I’m not even sure why I still have an accounts I don’t use any other facebook apps.

  • Possibly linuxEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    I think Pixelfed offers a similar experience. I haven’t tested either.

  • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    People always look at me funny when I tell them I don’t do that mainstream datagobbler social media shit; but thanks to all the work I put in locking my shit down, I don’t ever get advertised to in ways that I can’t nearly-immediately shut down anymore. Advertising is brain poison; and advertisers are poisoners.