@robin @aurynn Actually of a similar opinion. Injecting ads into outbound federation is a hard pass, but adding them into their own users' view as an alternative to asking people to donate every five minutes is...just another way to keep the lights on for themselves.
My bet is they'd have an ad-free/paid tier too.
Basically no different than e.g. Twiterriffic was in 2008, and I had no particular problem with that then.