What makes you think they aren't going to put ads in shortly? They are most likely trying to entice people to sign-up and will, once they get to a critical mass of engaged users, add them in.
Of course it will get ads. Nobody expects otherwise. But right now, under the deal that is, it’s interesting enough to try.
When someone says he will publish your book and pay you but once the book is popular he will stick his content in the middle of it and redesign it...
It’s a perfect metaphor.
As sores and other health issues appear you remind yourself that the ice cream still delivers some good things, and your friends will only spend time with you if you all eat the same ice cream.
>And I assume you’ll have a similar monetization model? There will eventually be ads in there as well?
>If we are successful, if we make something that lots of people love and keep using, we will, I’m sure, monetize it. And I would be confident that the business model will be ads.
Bet money they'll integrate it to ig in a couple years.
So yea, duh, Meta will monetize it. But it'll be an app hellbent on growing while being subsidized by Meta until then.