In many ways, Mastodon feels like rewinding the clock on social media back to the early days of Twitter and Facebook. On the consume side, that means that your home feed has no algorithm (this can be disorienting at first).

Practically, it means that you see only what you want to see and only see it linearly. You never wonder “why am I seeing this and how do I make it go away?”. Content can only enter your home feed via your followed tags or handles and the feed is linear like the early days of social media.

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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The second ads are required the customer stops being the users and starts being the advertisers. This starts the enshittification ~~snowball~~ shitball, Randers.

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a good thing you have the option to pay to remove ads and stay the customer, then

[–] MrLuemasG@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Legit. I paid $3 for Sync back in 2014 and used it daily for nine years.