Oh, there are ads. And they're not looking for money. They're looking for power.
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2026
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I enjoy it. Reddit makes the ads look like posts and it’s stupid. Tricked me more than a couple times.
I love this place. It seems like real people, real memes, feels like I went back in time to the good internet.
If you glance over at Mastodon, there are absolutely content creators and people trying to self-promote. I suppose they do here too on Lemmy/PieFed, but its just not as well seen.
I don't necessarily see it as a problem though if its relevant to the community and its something you can choose to disengage with... And also if the person posting it isn't aggressively spamming every relevant community.
Lemmynsfw was full of self promotion spammed across any community that's remotely related.
So?
It's so refreshing surfing the Internet and to not be completely inundated with ads and rage bait.
Very cool to see the Star Trek instance get so excited and I'm happy for the fediverse that this is happening.
I don't know if it will last as the fediverse scales, though...
"No ads" might last, with a little effort. Larger instances might start including ads in order to pay for the substantial server resources needed to run them, but you could always just use a smaller instance without ads -- or even run your own, private instance without ads -- and posts from the other ad-supported instances would still federate to you and vice versa, allowing you to participate without ads.
No 'content creators' trying to grab your attention for money, though... That can never last. The more popular the service gets, the more such people will come to it, looking to take advantage of the wider audience available here. And, honestly, the fediverse might be even weaker against that. While some instances might make rules against it, they'll go to instances that don't have rules against it, or poorly moderated instances, or they'll make their own new ones. You can always block them, sure, but new ones will pop up faster than you can block them if it gets popular enough. At least as long as Capitalism lasts, whenever there's a large group of people, others will come to try to sell things to those people or extract money from them in other ways.
We already have our own prominent "content creators"
The ads and content creators have already given it their best shot. It really will end up being decided by each community's mod if it makes it past the instance filter.
How I wish peertube could become a good alternative for youtube but idk how that would ever be possible, with all the storage of big video files, maybe with torrents? idk
and youtubers want to be paid.
And with good reason, given that high quality content is expensive. Even for a channel that is purely something as simple as video essays, if you're doing a good job, its going to take hundreds of hours of research and writing, nonetheless something more demanding.
Wrong franchise.
Yeah! this is a Star Trek household damnit!