But this is exactly my point.
People are selling #Mastodon and #Fediverse using claims like the one you described, but it's not actually true.
I don't know if you know this or not, maybe you got taken in with the misleading marketing yourself, but you can't actually run your own instance from your house and communicate with the rest of Fediverse without ads or algorithms.
From natural limits of federation through instance owners actively blocking other instances you cannot communicate with the rest of the system from your own instance. That is not how this platform works, and anybody saying otherwise is misrepresenting it.
And there are algorithms and ads here.
So these huge selling points are lies. I'm just going to be blunt about that.
This system is fine. It has some positives and some negatives, and as we bring over new users let's just be honest about both.
No, you won't be able to communicate with the entire platform, and that's okay because you'll be able to communicate with enough. Maybe.
@atomicpoet well @SrRochardBunson for one, right here in this thread, which is the whole point!
But I see it all the time in the news feed here, people excited to be on this new platform and highlighting benefits that don't quite exist.
Like I said, a lot of people simply don't understand how this platform works as the themselves were mislead, and that's dangerous.
I always highlight the particular danger of people not realizing just how insecure this whole thing is and posting private content without realizing that it's being broadcast publicly.
We need honest descriptions of this platform, both the good and the bad, so people can make informed decisions about how (and if) they use it.
@Tweetfiction
@volkris @SrRochardBunson @Tweetfiction Who are these entities engaging in misleading marketing about the Fediverse?
Name them and shame them.