Reading the latest thread by Mastodon‘s CTO @renchap made me realize once more how small the team behind all this is and how they really try to listen to feedback and get it right.

It’s incredible what they‘ve achieved. It’s literally David vs Goliath compared to other social media platforms.

We should always keep that in mind when some things are not 100% smooth.

We get an ad-free, algo-free, tracker-free, lunatic-billionaire-free space in return 💛

@bastianallgeier @renchap
"We get an [...]algo-free, tracker-free, lunatic-billionaire-free space in return 💛" - absolutely, and that is worth a lot of possible imperfection to me.

"We get an ad-free[...] in return 💛" - Well, not really ad-free. There must be thousands of accounts of (often smallish local) businesses that do nothing but drop advertising posts more or less regularly.

Occasionally, I reply to one of those ad posts, but have never once received any reaction from them, so /...

@bastianallgeier @renchap
.../ I think they don't even monitor their Mastodon accounts, or if they do, they do not want to interact with their audience on Mastodon in any form, just churn out their stupid posts avertising cafés in Brisbane, carpentry in Atlanta, real estate in Dubai, plastic surgery in Chennai, etc. that are useless for 99% of their readers because this instance has users all over the world, and I'll not travel to Australia for a coffee or to India for a computer mouse. /...

@bastianallgeier @renchap
.../ For me, these advertising accounts have become a major pain in the neck because there are more and more of them, clogging up the timeline. But I have no idea what could be done about them - is this behaviour even against the rules on mastodon.social? And if it is, how much moderating effort would be needed to actually stop them? Possibly too much.

But anyway, I like it here on mastodon.social :)

@gnaddrig @bastianallgeier @renchap Moderation. Just tell mods about spamming. And block them. Never saw ads here but I don't read federated/local timeline.