That’s not what the story is here - this is an additional fund raising entity to support the independence of the platform. The post is very clear that Mastodon (the project) remains a European organisation
However, it’s also important for us that Mastodon is one of the few, if not the only social media platform that operates out of the EU, and we would like to keep it that way.
while we’re at this, some mastodon clients allows you to block domains (there are cases where this is pretty handy) while rest asks you to do that by your server’s web page. wish that’d be a standard feature for all clients.
also, i’m in the blocking camp and i believe there’s not a single bit of good in any form in allowing big networks ran by corporations to join the federation. they’re aiming for the own profits only.
For the sake of sanity, I will just report that at the moment I have two accounts on Mastodon, one on a Meta-banning instance and one where they aren't banning them.
They're mostly identical, short of the faact that I get one opt-in follow who has both Masto and Meta accounts showing up twice and I get to see the few Meta employees with the test accounts I follow out of curiosity.
The level of discourse around these has been abysmal, honestly. I'm extremely disappointed on the "fediverse". Not because Meta is good or because I like them, but the level of inaccuracy and misinformation in the community at large paired with the unwillingness from the people who know better to set the record straight has been a rude awakening that social media is social media and this place isn't free from any of its dysfunctions.
Their explanation of how their federation works sounds like they went to a lot of effort to recreate how it works for Mastodon, while still maintaining control over everything.
I also like it how in one paragraph they are saying how their system is better, while in the next, they say how they replicate what they just said is bad.
What platform are you talking about? On ios i dont see such a tab. Also, mastodon isnt a centralized service, thats the whole point. There are lemmy apps that show ads but I would def not install them. Probably just posts that have a #news tag?
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