Mastodon is an incredibly rare opportunity for open-source, non-profit, advertising-free, decentralised software to be a real contender in a category – and, if it continues to grow, even to pull many other social networks into being part of (or interoperable with) the fediverse.

It's strange to me that this isn't mentioned more in the endless opinions about features, onboarding, UX, "vibes" etc.

@tomw I see a bunch of advertising accounts in the federated timeline. The good thing is, I can block the accounts. And none of my home feed contains adverts because I don't choose to follow any advertising accounts. I guess this is all rather pedantic.
@wtfrank I don't think that really counts as advertising, that's just people posting stuff. There is no way to pay for visibility.