Reading the latest thread by Mastodon‘s CTO @renchap made me realize once more how small the team behind all this is and how they really try to listen to feedback and get it right.
It’s incredible what they‘ve achieved. It’s literally David vs Goliath compared to other social media platforms.
We should always keep that in mind when some things are not 100% smooth.
We get an ad-free, algo-free, tracker-free, lunatic-billionaire-free space in return 💛
@bastianallgeier @renchap
"We get an [...]algo-free, tracker-free, lunatic-billionaire-free space in return 💛" - absolutely, and that is worth a lot of possible imperfection to me.
"We get an ad-free[...] in return 💛" - Well, not really ad-free. There must be thousands of accounts of (often smallish local) businesses that do nothing but drop advertising posts more or less regularly.
Occasionally, I reply to one of those ad posts, but have never once received any reaction from them, so /...
@bastianallgeier @renchap
.../ For me, these advertising accounts have become a major pain in the neck because there are more and more of them, clogging up the timeline. But I have no idea what could be done about them - is this behaviour even against the rules on mastodon.social? And if it is, how much moderating effort would be needed to actually stop them? Possibly too much.
But anyway, I like it here on mastodon.social :)
@parigotmanchot @bastianallgeier @renchap
I usually block them already, except for the few I replied to. Will report them from now on, too.
Some examples:
https://mastodon.social/@webflaredigital/111346407152433788
https://mastodon.social/@blueboxdigital/111284842848032172
https://mastodon.social/@matildaswoodfiredkitchen/111261841145864417
https://mastodon.social/@customwooddesign/111261777268650458
@gnaddrig @parigotmanchot Twitter was full of this. This is just the regular spam problem that every social media site has to deal with. As a user, you are in control to curate your feed and hardly ever see those.
But I'm talking about ads run by the platform. You can't do anything about those and you can't do anything about the necessary shady targeting techniques that the platforms have to use behind the scenes to keep their advertisers entertained.
@bastianallgeier @parigotmanchot
"But I'm talking about ads run by the platform." - Of course, Mastodon doesn't run any ads or sell ad space, and I'm grateful for that. I'm aware that the type of spamming I described is nothing Mastodon is responsible for or can do much about.
Like I said, I like it here, and the pros of Mastodon outweigh the cons by far, at least for me.
If you don't like them just mute or block them? It's just part of the scenery like 20 thread multiposts about Unix.
I sometimes talk about the things I have to sell because I need to erm... sell them.
I also contribute to my local instance because I value being able to be there. You'll never guess where the money comes from!
@bastianallgeier @renchap den letzten Satz muss man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen 🤯
Mal abgesehen davon dass bei mir seit einem Jahr alles smooth läuft und ich nicht einmal gemerkt habe, dass da kein Milliardenkonzern hintersteht.
@bastianallgeier @renchap
There is an accurate count of replies beneath each post.
I just wish they included an accurate count of Likes & Reposts as well.
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mirabilosmastodon.social especially it behaves worryingly like a Twitter 2.0 though@bastianallgeier @renchap Technically, yes, not bad.
... but then there was the 'Meta wants to join' discussion, which surprised and scared me a lot, tbh.
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