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Exactly. That's why I was saying maybe I'm overreacting because I kind of get it… But still.

Maybe it's because I have a lot of lines? Four phone lines, 3 connected watches, and one connected iPad.

I would hope, like you say, those larger instances would naturally realize larger donations with the higher user volume.

But sure, each instance can make the choice to inject ads in their users’ feeds. Larger instances may have promos with companies like video game publishers or movie studios. But I think the natural infrastructure that the Fediverse provides, limits this from the crazy ad levels we see in today's failing mainstream, centralized social media companies.

It's much more cost-effective, for everyone involved, in a decentralized platform. All those big company server costs are broken up into dozens eventually hundreds and thousands of different servers just like World Wide Web itself, with websites for each community, right? Communities chip in to buy Little League shirts for their town baseball teams, we set up websites for our book sales and bake sales, school PTAs are able to accomplish great things because their parent communities can afford to help in smaller circles.

Decentralization doesn't just decentralize the data. It also decentralizes the semantics, the funding, etc.

All this talk about “well, the UX”, “if the servers can”, “but the big companies”, bla, bla, bla. I’m here right now. There is nothing else as far as I’m concerned. Twitter and Reddit are dead to me and I absolutely love Mastodon and Lemmy. I quit Facebook many years ago and never found an alternative for that, outside of starting a shared photo group on iOS with my family.

You better start believing in fediverse alternatives…you’re in one.

no reason

I mean, you can see at least one reason I’m sure

It has to be, right?? I know ferrets, and one is strong.

{shocked Pikachu face}

But, like, even his skin doesn’t flinch

Double KO

Ouch

and a list of contacts, they’ve improved since

I’m confused. Are you saying they still store contacts but with better encryption or that they no longer store contact information?