Notices by Ian Littman (ian@phpc.social)

HugOps to other Mastodon instances whose mods have cleaned up the whole "being a vector for spam" thing. I see y'all, and appreciate the effort put toward having a clean feed going forward.

#MastoAdmin #fediblock

@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.

@tinker @jr @ben Flip side is, Tumblr is now owned by the folks who are the corporate face of WordPress. They're used to being a decent sized fish in a huge pond. Embrace, extend, extinguish isn't Automattic's MO.