I switched instances just so I could be on one that had downvotes because I passionately believe downvotes give immediate power to of self moderation to the users. However, I’m very light on downvoting. I only downvotevote stuff like the OP was talking about or if something is technically incorrect and damaging to a thread. But again I’m very light on downvoting, as I was on Reddit before. I usually ignore something that I simply don’t agree with or think is too silly, etc.

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.

Aye!

Try this: /c/askkbin@kbin.social

Wow, these look awesome! Thank you for this!

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

I copy, I paste. That is all.

– OP (probably)

Lol, what?

That’s so crazy, dude.

But still…this post to the top! 👆

Can we please make this the top post in the fediverse?

Yeah, but dick-pics…safe?

Holy shit, what a dumpster fire