Roger Whitson
Constance VariableHow can there be no ads? Because your admins are paying for the servers and run them as a hobby. It's not crazy expensive, but it does take up free time. They still do it because they enjoy the communities that develop. These instances are free with no ads because nice people are running them as a gift for you because they like you. Now, is that better than Facebook's or Twitter's business model or what?
Oracle(tm) e-Business Social 🎃@lambadalambda also, small communities can contribute to the upkeep of that server too :) no need nor room for ads here
@kitredgrave I think many newcomers (especially tech journalist types) still think in business models of millions of users. But the reality is that there are hundreds of instances with a few hundred users, and that's much easier to handle.
Mitchell@lambadalambda I feel like this should be requiped 100000000000 times. Couldn't say it better myself!!
Jeezy Peeps@lambadalambda i'm inherently glad i saw someone post this, the tech site articles that appeared over the last couple of days missed so fucking much out, and i say this as an early masto adopter with little clue about the fediverse
Matt Cropp (now @ social.coop)@lambadalambda eventually, to scale, I like the #PlatformCoop model for nodes... :)
Messgorough@lambadalambda I spend half my time on twitter blocking adds. Sometimes 1 in 5 tweets there is a fucking add.
@messgorough yeah, it's horrible.
@lambadalambda Seriously how do people communicate on a long term basis that way, good for sharing links but fuck all else.
@messgorough there isn't much communication on twitter, mostly people building their 'brand'.
Semerenkov@lambadalambda I don't think it is comparable because facebooks/twitter business model is revolved around profit.
@semerenkov It's still comparable because it delivers a similar 'product' to the users, just with less of the user-hostile stuff (tracking, ads...).