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Got curious about who else is sponsoring Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors Though not completely surprised, I must
by counternotions 4y ago
Got curious about who else is sponsoring Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors
Though not completely surprised, I must say this collection of logos is a bad look for Mastodon's mainstream adoption. >80% of the sponsors are suspicious looking casino and adult sites.
- coderdd 4y ago
- toastedwedge 4y agoWeird. Seems like they used to have much more technical sponsors in the past. Hopefully this doesn't mean that a financial crisis is looming?
- t6jvcereio 4y agoMastodon being sponsored by porn sites means a financial crisis is coming? What?
- stevenicr 4y agoInteresting indeed - although I see it opposite. Personally I find gambling sites (and alcohol ads amongst other things) abhorrent, however when I see sponsors listed like these it makes me feel that the portal has less censorship than [insert news / tech giant / etc here] Which gives me hope / faith that a thing could be bigger / better than the narrow [other] - It's like if there are only a dozen or so 4 color printing presses in the world - I'd want to support the one that prints Hustler magazines.. like Larry Flynt said something like 'if they censor me, whats to stop them from censoring you or anyone else' I realize I am a bit of on outlier (I assume) than the 'mainstream adoption' group you may be referring to. I also think 99% of the 'mainstream adopters' never look for nor care about a sponsors page.
- yellowapple 4y agoDoesn't seem like that bad of a look to me. There's always been a bit of a symbiotic relationship between online anonymity/decentralization/freedom movements and "seedier" websites, so it doesn't really surprise or concern me too much that one of Mastodon's sponsors sells sex dolls.