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Mastodon being useless to advertisers is one of the biggest selling points (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/mastodon@lemmy.ml
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[–] JackFromWisconsin@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

Feature, not a bug.

Big Advertising can be stopped simply by denying their existence in the first place. It's time to get advertisers out of our digital lives.

[–] fit6529@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let's hope that Mastodon instances will be able to work on donations. Otherwise who knows what happens. Servers cost money.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

Seems like crowd funding has been working pretty well so far, and I think that's really the right model to pursue. I pitch in a couple of bucks for the server I use, and it only takes a small percentage of the users to do that to make this viable.