If you get a #followRequest without your account being locked, the #admins of your #instance have paid attention in advance and warn you about a suspicious account. You can still allow it as a follower, but the one today was indeed extremely suspicious and rubbish.
Friendly reminder: To thank your admins and instance for all their work you can #donate! Find the possibilities on your instance's page. The #Fediverse is #adfree but good #moderation/building instances costs time/money. And - tada:
Sick of the #streaming sites raising prices and adding... ads? Annoyed that #spotify doesn't pay the artists you listen to?
Now there is #Jellyfin - a #free and #openSource media server that allows you to turn your personal movie, TV show and music collection into an #adFree available-anywhere streaming service!
It works on the web, as well as having official apps for #androidTV, #roku, #fireTV, etc.
There were a lot of people on Mastodon doubting federation would happen (despite a lot of incentives for Meta to federate), but this is a very definitive statement.
Maybe this is the kind of question that only someone who is computer illiterate would ask, but...
Since #Mastodon is #AdFree and #Threads is manipulated by an advertiser-driven #algorithm, how (if at all) do you foresee ads from those other platforms showing up on Mastodon and/or the algorithms of the advertiser platforms affecting feed in the #Fediverse at large?
YouTube is owned by Alphabet, aka Google's umbrella corporation. Google in turn was devoured by DoubleClick, the largest advertising company to come out of the 1990s web.
When you use Google, you are feeding the attention monster that is the advertising industry.
We should aim to criminalize behavioural advertising and break up the Google monopoly, not tolerate their shit and work around it by using adblockers.
One thing that was really great on #masto and then #pixelfed was the ability to use the browser.
As we're seeing new social media contenders(threads) illustrate, companies want you to use the app, not a browser. Far more data is available to them to exploit.
As we move forward with #defederation#FOSS#adfree and #privacy I'd like to remind developers that they don't need to compete with "apps." We should be sharing the message about their faults.
Who are these people (from NBCUniversal) that look at current state of #Twitter and the type of filth that #Musk is increasingly elevating over there and say "yeah, I want to be part of that. I am excited to help build Twitter 2.0"?
I guess it makes sense since we have already seen shades of Linda #Yaccarino's bigotry.
Figures that Linda would bring other like-minded colleagues over.
@adamjcook no surprise, other than you bring people you trust and hope the boss doesn’t pull your budget ( and there will be one) to turn that bird around. But now that we’ve experienced what #algorithm#adfree social media can do, will anyone go back?
Maybe, unless the communities at #twitter can be recovered and improved upon here #mastodon