Sridhar
Matt BlazeNice thing about Mastodon: It's one of the extremely rare web pages I visit where my ad blocker doesn't need to do anything.
Don't forget to support your local instance, financially and otherwise, to the extent you're able.
Brian Dear@mattblaze I wonder if instances esp outside US are monitored by a certain 3-letter agency. Would assume even the Fediverse flows into Bluffdale, as it were.
LauraPhillips99@mattblaze Still only half-sure I know what an “instance” is. Is that just Mastodon-speak, or is it a term used elsewhere?
@LauraPhillips99 Mastodon-speak for the server you're signed up with.
Word of Mouth 
@mattblaze @LauraPhillips99 Not just Mastodon. It's #DevOps speak, since in this day and age we don't always run an OS by itself on "bare metal" hardware. We usually use virtual machines and containers. "Instance" is just a generalization of "Server".
@notroot @LauraPhillips99 I’ll check out this virtual machine thing.
@mattblaze @LauraPhillips99 👍 The idea is straightforward: you can run Windows and Mac OS on your Linux box. Or any other combination. There's performance restrictions. Most of the internet works this way, now.
@notroot @LauraPhillips99 Inconcevable.
@mattblaze @LauraPhillips99 Ooops forgot who I was replying to. Heh
Tim Anderson
⚾️ Lance Peterman@mattblaze @notroot @LauraPhillips99 Not gonna lie, this gave me a laugh. Sarcasm does render well on a site where messages are called toots.
AriM 🇺🇲🇮🇱🇺🇦@notroot @mattblaze @LauraPhillips99
None of this makes any sense to the overwhelming majority of Mastodon's new target audience. Someone better mount a really simple front end on the signup process, with zero mention of servers and/or instances, or this thing will never go anywhere.
None of this makes any sense to the overwhelming majority of Mastodon's new target audience. Someone better mount a really simple front end on the signup process, with zero mention of servers and/or instances, or this thing will never go anywhere.
@AriM
I tend to agree. Maybe ask a few interest questions, then pick an open instance for them. Let them pick a different one if they want, but for new users they would never even need to know which was picked.
@mattblaze @LauraPhillips99
I tend to agree. Maybe ask a few interest questions, then pick an open instance for them. Let them pick a different one if they want, but for new users they would never even need to know which was picked.
@mattblaze @LauraPhillips99
@mattblaze @LauraPhillips99 From a user experience perspective, does the instance you are on matter?
Mr. Sancho's father@LauraPhillips99 @mattblaze FWI, I hope they never sink to using acronyms! IMO, that's when this falls apart. LOL
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Dan@mattblaze I'm not sure I know how to find an instance based in Alaska.
lgtm@mattblaze I feel there should be a “support this instance” page and it should be an official part of mastodon. Have a dedicated api for that page so that even third party apps can show it.
grin@mattblaze Great idea! I'll go and wash the teeth of the owner! 😉
And I have scratched his head repeatedly today. Am I good?
And I have scratched his head repeatedly today. Am I good?
Daryl Cooke@mattblaze how does one donate to their local instance? I'm still new here and learning.
Ali
Daniel Morgan@mattblaze curious what you use for your daily driver?
Matt Linton 
@mattblaze I feel this so hard. Ghostery & AdBlock are just completely idle. I wish much more of the internet were "Small fee, ad-free".
alan 
@amuse @mattblaze @mattblaze if you collect sites where ad blockers can take a rest, I'll offer mine
there's not much to it. it's just an alphabetized lists of a couple decades of posts, but you won't run into ads or trackers
TheOPtimal@amuse @mattblaze try uBlock, it's faster than both of those.
Tsumami 
@amuse @mattblaze there are plenty of places online that are behind a paywall but have minimal or no ads. That’s not what’s going to attract a large crowd, though. Most people don’t want any paywall at all and aren’t that bothered by ads. Especially those of us who are in our 20s-30s. We do not care about ads as much.
Michelle (she/her) 
🇵🇷@mattblaze Oh damn I hadn't even realized that. 😍
Mathew Inkson 
@mattblaze Yep, and Privacy Badger!
Chema Hernández GilI even turned mine off! It's great.
Dave Land@mattblaze Surveillance Capitalism, in malignant form of targeted advertising, is highly aggressive. Heaven help Mastodon when for-profit corporations decide to federate.
Jari Komppa 🇫🇮@mattblaze Where your ad blocker doesn't need to do anything yet!
Rubbish? 🦝@mattblaze newgrounds does that too, it's pretty ballin
Riley@mattblaze the freedom of not being sold anything and not being tracked anywhere. Can't believe how hard it is to get some people to care about how special that is.
mindstalk@mattblaze For the record, #Dreamwidth (Livejournal fork) has been ad-free since its beginning years ago.
@mindstalk Sure, they're out there. But few and far between these days.
NorthEastOne@mattblaze And other instances in the Fediverse too. We need to stop equating "Mastodon = Fediverse" 🙂
@NorthEastOne I was describing my own personal experience. I wasn't attempting to make an exhaustive list of ad free web sites.
@mattblaze I was coming from this. It kills the purpose of 'federation' if we're all again lumped under one 'brand' called Mastodon when there's Pleroma, SoapBox, GotoSocial and many new ones working on making the experience in the Fediverse better.
Conrad Hackett :verified: (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image 84% of Mastodon users are on the largest 1% of instances 97% are on the largest 5% of instances analysis by @[email protected]
potatoxel@mattblaze heh buy my new pro---
Grey@mattblaze ive realized how much healthier not having the infinite recommendations is as well. Just getting updates from people I follow (exactly what I opened the app for) and then going back to what I was meant to be doing after. No advertisments and algorithms keeping me scrolling for hours anymore.
Jigen Daisuke, Jr@mattblaze this has to be advertised more, as not all new or potential users can figure out this by themselves.
A:\lex 
@mattblaze Personally, I'd be more than willing to tolerate ads to support my instance, but I do appreciate the ideological purity on some level.
Stefan Scholl@mattblaze the second time I tried the #fediverse it was a #Mastodon server with its own styles. So I used a userstyle in my browser to avoid seeing cat ears with every user profile.
Eike Leidgens@mattblaze everything needs a break sometimes.
Daniel@mattblaze yep... even Pi-hole doesn't block any DNS call.
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Mastodon Paraguay
@energiepirat@mattblaze True - like Wikipedia.
FreebirdFrolic@mattblaze Nor my block button.
scott@mattblaze Ha umatrix and ublock look bored when I'm on mastodon...
Dudula the Dud@mattblaze I'd not noticed that before! Probably because I have an ad blocker!
amaEven nicer: Mastodon isn't a web page.
Maddler 
@mattblaze oh, true! Never checked that...
Larry Garfield@mattblaze I'd not even thought of that, but you're right. Both UBlock Origin and Privacy Badger are silent on this site. Woo!
Zorin =^o.o^=@mattblaze @georgetakei I disabled it for my instance because why even waste the CPU cycles. Wonderful ain't it?
SomeGadgetGuy@mattblaze Big old ZERO on uBlock... Feels good...
Sue Stone@mattblaze Kind of nice, that!
@mattblaze
I enjoy the site not pushing people on me i don't want to hear from
I enjoy the site not pushing people on me i don't want to hear from
octoturt@mattblaze it's beautiful (ublock origin/privacy badger/firefox, really absurd that this is the number of things i need to dedicate to making the modern web usable, before i even get to site-specific extensions like sponsorblock for youtube)
Tom@mattblaze nor a cookie banner!