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None of the people I follow are active on Mastodon. The selling point to me for Bluesky is that it’s essentially a Twitter clone not owned by a billionaire. It’s friendly to the communities I’m part of specifically and doesn’t have ads. What more should anyone ask for from a social media platform?
To not be corporate owned at all? Reddit used to be all those things, too. As was Digg. Until they had a critical mass of users and began trying to turn a profit.
This is why I can't get into it. The whole twitter format just feels so unappealing to me.
It surly can't avoid having ads permanently tho?
I assume they're just burning cash rn but will eventually need to have sustainable income. Alternatively Mastodon is an actual non-profit, it doesn't need to have the same type of income