Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.
sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoIt’s not just ad-free, it’s actively anti-corporate, anti-advertising, even anti-monetization.
There are upvoted positive posts and comments about
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the Switch 2 announcement (but not Nintendo’s legal policy),
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the Framework advertising event last week,
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Valve/Steam/SteamOS/Steamdeck/Gabe Newell in general,
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Costco in general,
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EVs in general (excluding Tesla and Cybertrucks 😂),
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podcasts that solicit funding and carry advertising,
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anime and anime adjacent products,
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Lenovo’s laptops,
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individuals selling stuff on Redbubble/Etsy/OnlyFans,
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subscription razor blade delivery (not from Amazon),
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and “voting with your wallet”.
It’d be cool if the platform made it easier for orgs to build and interact with a following here. Niches of users really like talking about them. That doesn’t mean ads, it means features that would benefit regular users as well.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
That’s people just sharing their online freely. Word of mouth chatter is definitely not the same as advertising or even influencing, though of course they try to be.