How has Mastodon spoiled me this time? NO ADS!

I’m loving it. Mastodon may not yet have the same variety of big name accounts to follow like Twitter and Facebook do, but I am definitely loving the NO ADS experience.

I wrote about it on Mastodon earlier today, and this was what I said: “Well well well, whodathunkit, but I’m getting tired of the other networks (Twitter, Facebook)… because ads. There is a reason I don’t populate my blogs and websites with 3rd party adverts. I could, but I don’t, because I too hate ads, and I don’t like subjecting my website viewers to that mess. I make photo and art ebooks people can buy if they want to support my work in blogging. I guess this is also one of the reasons Mastodon is growing on me. No ads.”

Don’t get me wrong. I get it that mainstream social networks like Twitter, and Facebook need to make an income to support the platforms, but it is ridiculous how many ads they show in sequence. It’s like every other 3rd post is an ad. You don’t get that on Mastodon which is open source, federated, and supported by donations. And for me, as far as publishing and engaging with the accounts I have found interesting enough to follow on Mastodon, this is great. It means that the time I spend scrolling on Mastodon is spent actually seeing more interesting contents without ad interruptions. No ads, it’s free, and it’s still receiving the monetary support it needs to stay in service. You can’t beat that.

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