Mastodon has no advertising-driven business model. Still, that community is, due to its founding generation, extremely strident about certain social matters. A

Mastodon has no advertising-driven business model. Still, that community is, due to its founding generation, extremely strident about certain social matters. A person posting views held by a considerable swath of the planet can draw outrage and sensation comparable to anything from Meta or Twitter. The loss of civility may have been initially sparked by advertising-based platforms, but it has spread to general anglophone society now.