End of my 4th week on #Mastodon and I really like the lack of adverts
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The lack of ads is great, yeah. And the knock-on from that is the (perhaps over-sold) lack of recommendation system, since ML-based post display is usually tuned to maximize ad views, they end up filling your feed with emotionally charged engagement bait.
Without the ads, the system of being fed content you didn’t subscribe to, and the system of maximizing the emotional impact of that content, never comes to be, and the social media landscape looks wildly different.
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End of my 4th week on #Mastodon and I really like the lack of adverts
I hate ads - can't bear TV with ads, avoid videos with ads, quickly lose interest in podcasts that have too many ads
We’ve always refused to put ads in our podcast, even after several hundred episodes. They offer us money, we say no
So I like this #fediverse - nice people, no algorithm, no ads. And you like cats! What a place!
Molly agrees. This is how she looks when she thinks I'm right
I think...
@rufustheduck
Definitely a "That's right" face
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@GlitchGhost who has the TIME???
@rufustheduck nobody does!
this is way I have no shame using and advocating using an ad blocker like ublock origin or AdNauseam which is built on top of ublock origin, this is a cool ad blocker a lot of people have not heard of and they got banned of the chrome web store from what I hear https://adnauseam.io/ -
End of my 4th week on #Mastodon and I really like the lack of adverts
I hate ads - can't bear TV with ads, avoid videos with ads, quickly lose interest in podcasts that have too many ads
We’ve always refused to put ads in our podcast, even after several hundred episodes. They offer us money, we say no
So I like this #fediverse - nice people, no algorithm, no ads. And you like cats! What a place!
Molly agrees. This is how she looks when she thinks I'm right
I think...
@rufustheduck yeah the Fediverse seem like the way to go
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@rufustheduck
Definitely a "That's right" face@nigelharpur I knew it!
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@rufustheduck nobody does!
this is way I have no shame using and advocating using an ad blocker like ublock origin or AdNauseam which is built on top of ublock origin, this is a cool ad blocker a lot of people have not heard of and they got banned of the chrome web store from what I hear https://adnauseam.io/@GlitchGhost I'll check it out, thank you. Can never have too many adblockers (I realise this is almost certainly untrue)
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End of my 4th week on #Mastodon and I really like the lack of adverts
I hate ads - can't bear TV with ads, avoid videos with ads, quickly lose interest in podcasts that have too many ads
We’ve always refused to put ads in our podcast, even after several hundred episodes. They offer us money, we say no
So I like this #fediverse - nice people, no algorithm, no ads. And you like cats! What a place!
Molly agrees. This is how she looks when she thinks I'm right
I think...
@rufustheduck So much yes!
By now I'm allergic to ads. No TV, no streaming, ...
That industry overdid it big time. -
End of my 4th week on #Mastodon and I really like the lack of adverts
I hate ads - can't bear TV with ads, avoid videos with ads, quickly lose interest in podcasts that have too many ads
We’ve always refused to put ads in our podcast, even after several hundred episodes. They offer us money, we say no
So I like this #fediverse - nice people, no algorithm, no ads. And you like cats! What a place!
Molly agrees. This is how she looks when she thinks I'm right
I think...
I like that part too! Glad you are having a good time here and love Molly
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End of my 4th week on #Mastodon and I really like the lack of adverts
I hate ads - can't bear TV with ads, avoid videos with ads, quickly lose interest in podcasts that have too many ads
We’ve always refused to put ads in our podcast, even after several hundred episodes. They offer us money, we say no
So I like this #fediverse - nice people, no algorithm, no ads. And you like cats! What a place!
Molly agrees. This is how she looks when she thinks I'm right
I think...
@rufustheduck I have to agree the lack of ads is bliss. I, too, have been here only just over a week, so same! But I have looked almost exclusively at cat pictures and maybe I need to branch out a bit?
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@rufustheduck So much yes!
By now I'm allergic to ads. No TV, no streaming, ...
That industry overdid it big time.@canyakker allergic! That is an excellent way of putting it. I have a physical reaction to them
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I like that part too! Glad you are having a good time here and love Molly
@Whimsy she's extremely loveable
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@rufustheduck I have to agree the lack of ads is bliss. I, too, have been here only just over a week, so same! But I have looked almost exclusively at cat pictures and maybe I need to branch out a bit?
@antje you mean... start looking at dog pictures too...?
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@WuMargaret I'll tell her. She'll be happy to hear it
