this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2023
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I'm surprised it's taking them so long. It seems like it shouldn't be that much of a technical challenge for an organization with Meta's resources, especially when it was planned before the service even launched.
They might be talking about data harvesting and revenue generation driven from federated sources.
If you mean from the Fediverse side, it's not really possible. At least not from Mastodon.
People have this misunderstanding, if they add ads, it will be for users of #threads, other servers will not see the ad. What about if they inject an ad to every post? That would make no sense, their income come from ads, but personalized ads, you probably hate them, but tons of people find them useful, besides they won't be able to have metrics for a wall of text or image at the bottom of every post for others in the #fediverse.