Other social networks (X, Threads, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok) are specifically designed NOT to send traffic to news publishers. - ThreadSky

juddlegum.bsky.social • 184 days ago

Other social networks (X, Threads, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok) are specifically designed NOT to send traffic to news publishers.

Reposted from Matt Karolian

Traffic from Bluesky to @bostonglobe.com is already 3x that of Threads, and we are seeing 4.5x the conversions to paying digital subscribers.

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primroseriordan.bsky.social•182 days ago

Do you think Bluesky will eventually be any different?

meidastom.bsky.social•184 days ago

And this is what’s got them scared. I love it.

laurovela.bsky.social•184 days ago

Can confirm

brklynlib.bsky.social•184 days ago

👍👍👍👍

jarekpach.bsky.social•184 days ago

In Canada🇨🇦 you cannot even share a news content (links to news publishers) on Facebook 🤷🏻‍♂️

klearnote.com•184 days ago

Yet another reason to dump Facebook. I did that at least 3 years ago and have never looked back.

gabbiparis.bsky.social•184 days ago

Biden signed a peace treaty deal with Israel and Lebanon. He made the announcement from the rose garden. Happy to help you do your job.

bearwithit.bsky.social•184 days ago

Platforms are valued by their ability to monetize attention. Sending you outside the platform is counter to that goal.

sarabjustone.bsky.social•184 days ago

By whom? Valued by whom?

Half the problems we have come from putting too much emphasis on what certain people value.

bearwithit.bsky.social•183 days ago

This is valuation by investors, aka shareholders. Unless a company is a non-profit or a Benefit Corporation, you are actually legally obligated to maximize shareholder value. Also, valuation is how you get funding which is how you monetize the thing you’ve built which is how you pay your mortgage.

sarabjustone.bsky.social•183 days ago

…exactly

sarabjustone.bsky.social•183 days ago

Entirely the wrong mindset

louissamuel.bsky.social•184 days ago

@tallgirl6234.bsky.social seen this one?

euphoricfuzion.bsky.social•181 days ago

Boom! Two new accounts to follow!

I love it here!!

donaldtrumpshair.net•184 days ago

The breeze from all that traffic is messing the doo. Too much, too much.

jeffhyde2284.bsky.social•184 days ago

And with the FCC as well as the Trump Administration taking more control of our internet access like this, this will really get more ugly, the Billionaires are truly have found someone better than Reagan in this, and Trump alone will Crash the Economy in this mess, and cause a Civil War too.

gogs-48.bsky.social•184 days ago

These links are one of the best features on here.

v-ron.bsky.social•184 days ago

It's $1 for 6 months. And they have good travel articles with factual safety concerns. Not just fluffy picture bait of place you can't afford.

reedeisenhart.bsky.social•184 days ago

Hmm, could be a contributor to why our populace is so uninformed.

tperspectivevortex.bsky.social•184 days ago

Is that why social media links more often than not direct me to Apple News (which wants me to sign up) rather than the org that actually reported the story? Never been able to figure out why that happens.

iamtherealsteve.bsky.social•184 days ago

Apple News is a big source of revenue for a lot of news orgs - the story below describes the Daily Beast making more from Apple News than from direct subscriptions

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/19/2024/as-clicks-dry-up-for-news-sites-could-apples-news-app-be-a-lifeline

tperspectivevortex.bsky.social•184 days ago

Wow, thanks for this! I had kind of assumed they were data-scraping and starving the content creators.

democracyop.bsky.social•184 days ago

I’d be wary. “Tim Apple” congratulated the fascist on his win.

desarrayed.bsky.social•184 days ago

Almost like Musk doesn’t want people to know what is actually happening

mkarolian.bsky.social•184 days ago

100%

zeruch.bsky.social•184 days ago

If @bsky.app is smart, they've already figured this out and realized it would be one of the differentiators that allows them to tackle more of the market (direct business TO rather than extort from). Because the VCS aren't going to let them coast on just growth for the sake of itself for too long.

doestahr.bsky.social•184 days ago

Updates from Spoonamore account. Very disturbing tips and machine produced results. https://substack.com/inbox/post/152196691?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3332631&post_id=152196691&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fthr&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

iamtherealsteve.bsky.social•184 days ago

The “Lazy linking” post should have been the final straw for reporters and news orgs everywhere

notooligarchs.bsky.social•184 days ago

this could be its secret sauce

noonereally2.bsky.social•184 days ago

F**k yeah.

bridgetstirling.bsky.social•184 days ago

Particularly if you're a Canadian using any Meta platform.

scrappy-coco.bsky.social•184 days ago

Wasn't there a big issue raised a few years back that fb kept news sites from clicks/views cause of this? Zuck really wanted to control the news sites visibility.

daveyishere.bsky.social•184 days ago

If you're new to what Judd does, follow him. Independent journalism is our way to break this exhausting narrative

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