It's still ad-free, but that was never going to last.

Meta could bring ads to Threads as soon as next year, according to a report from The Information. As part of its plan, Threads will reportedly allow a small number of advertisers to make and publish ads in January.

That tracks with what my colleague Alex Heath reported about the rollout of ads in July. Instagram head Adam Mosseri has also confirmed that Meta is “definitely” planning to bring ads to Threads. “I get why people have concerns, but at the end of the day we’re a business and Threads needs to make enough money to pay for the people and servers that it takes to run the service and provide it to people for free,” Mosseri said at the time.

    • Mothra@mander.xyz
      25·
      10 hours ago

      I’m not sure. Maybe, for a small minority of people, that’s the case. But for most… The reason they flocked there first, while there were plenty of fediverse options already, wasn’t lack of ads. It was the opposite, ads from a platform with ads that led most people to threads in the first place.

    • DdCno1@beehaw.org
      8·
      8 hours ago

      If you think the type of person who signs up for a Facebook product will flock over to the “real” fediverse the moment they are seeing ads (which they are most likely seeing everywhere else on the Internet, since this kind of low-information user is usually not even aware of the possibility of blocking ads), then I got a bridge to sell to you.