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  • yeah, I see them being posted into their DB (and therefore federated as) a post as if they are a user. they can earmark that post as an ad and properly present it as such in their own platform but anyone federated would see the post as-is.

    they could either obfuscate how they mark it as an ad or just not provide that information at all to federating instances.

    then I can totally see them claiming they don’t control other instances and can’t be responsible for whether or not the federated ads are presented as such.












  • i looked into revolt and pretty concerned with these two stances of the project

    We don’t think federation is beneficial to Revolt

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    We have a variety of monetisation ideas lined up internally, with these, it is not my intention for us to paywall features and I find it unlikely we would ever do that considering it would contradict what we’re trying to achieve.

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    like, to me it seems they want to get communities invested and then later monetize in ways those communities don’t yet know about?? idk that sounds extremely sus. especially when competing instances will fight against network effects with no federation.


  • the problem occurs when most of the content comes from Meta (they will likely have the vast majority of Fediverse users). especially if major communities exist on their instance. when meta decides to no longer support fedi integration, those in the fedi are forced to decide between staying with their communities by ditching the fedi and moving to threads or having many of their communities ripped away.

    meta will do this at some point as a play to draw users to them, but we can decide if we want to be affected when that comes to pass.