This piece makes me incredibly sad. Damn.
Appreciate the thorough explanations, thanks!
The last part is fucked up, yikes...
Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense for targeted ads for sure. Still a bit worried about hashtags being used for ads since I follow a lot of hashtags on mastodon and usually have a quite a nice "organic" feed compared to other social media.
Might be a stupid question, but can't threads just post ads as "posts" via activityPub? On mastodon they would appear as toots?
Was just remembering how reddit introduced ads as basically promoted posts and recall facebook doing the same.
I sure fucking hope not.
Oidaridoo
You mean on android mobile? Firefox for Android has a extension that works nicely to allow you to play e.g. youtube videos in the background: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/
For iOS though I've got no idea, sorry :(
True shitposting
I feel a bit icky about explaining this, but the demon is transferring their soul - by accident - to the "rainbow dash" figurine.
Aaand here's the rest: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pony-cum-jar-project
Oh thanks!
You did not disappoint, have to download that when I get home. Even has maps of some of the worlds of H.P. Lovecraft
This makes me happy! I just recently got really into maps and was glad to see a bit of community here as well.
Have to checkout those books, thanks for the suggestions!
Yiss 🗺️!
I had a similar experience. Some niche local groups only exist on facebook and that's why I had an account that I never deletes since making it like 15 years ago.
My feed was filled with sketchy ads and recommendations so I didn't use it. Kept in contact with some old friends via messenger and only used groups pretty much.
That all changed few months ago when facebook locked my account for "suspicious activity" and showed me a prompt after logging in stating I need to upload a government issued ID to unlock my account. I checked and made sure this is actual facebook and not some fake site I accidentally would have somehow entered.
"Suspicious activity" was me logging via the web browser on my phone using another teleoperator while traveling.
When I returned from traveling I suddenly was able to unlock my account with just my email. Took the chance and deleted my account.
Facebooks groups are amazing, but yeah, the price is your privacy. And I don't mean just email and your personal preferences, shits wild what they know about you and what/how they gather information about you.
If you are interested in reading about it:
The book "The Four" from Scott Galloway. I personally didn't like the authors bias on the matter but he summarizes it pretty well how/what facebook knows about you.
Edit: why would people downvote OP's question? It's a good question imo.