Has there been any successful Brands / Business' that have moved or grow on the Fediverse?

Maaaaaaan part of the reason I like the fediverse is that there aren’t brands posting and when they do, they get their posts deleted as spam and banned.

Fuck every brand, every company! Social spaces gotta be made wildly hostile to businesses or else they ruin everything. Just look at any other social media site.

God, I hope not.

I’m going to answer a bit against the grain and say yes*, I’ve seen some indie devs, small time authors, musicians, etc gain some momentum on Mastodon.

But most of these aren’t really a ‘brand’ so much as it is passionate people whose interests align with the community here. Anything beyond that will likely be shown the door.

You mean besides Arch Linux?

Oo I haven’t gotten to use this one for a while. How do people feel about (covert or otherwise) advertisers in their spaces to interact with other humans?

Since a picture is worth a thousand words.

That meme was pretty popular on Twitter. Many people would harass profit seeking companies with it, block all advertising accounts, etc. Because they were there to communicate with each other. (And sometimes to publicly shame bad companies.)

…But they lost that battle because the platform itself was designed to enable and push ads. The users were always the product.

The Fediverse works differently. It is yours, mine, OURS.

If me and my friends made a game and we’re excited about it? We can share it to a gamedev group primarily to talk about it, even if it has a steam page and people ask, sure. If it offers something for the community to discuss and engage (positively) over, it’s a good thing.

If the point of the post was to “How do ya do, fellow kids?” In order to shill, it’s gonna get sniffed out real fast. Lots of for-profit cloud services try this nonsense and get busted.

The world is in a scary place right now, and everyone’s looking for their next get rich quick easy money gold rush. The Fediverse is specifically trying to block that sleeze so people can be free to genuinely communicate without some polo-clad intern marching up to our coffee table and trying to tell us all the wonderful benefits of Starbucks.

The Fediverse is not an “untapped market.” It’s designed to be a “tap resistant un-market.”

At its best, it’s a town square where we behave like humans and discuss ideas, rather than a bazarr where you can’t hear your friends because everyone’s hawking goods in your face and screaming about their “GrEaT dEaLs!!!!111one”.

If you’re a business that actually seeks to be a genuine part of the community and benefit it in more ways than just sales, there might be a place for you. Being a co-op with ethical labor practices will take you far.

But nobody’s going to swallow that “EdUcAtE aBoUt HoW yOuR pRoDuCt ImPrOvEs LiVeS!” swill here.

Hope this helps!

I fuckin hope not. And I just don’t talk about brands the way you want me to. That’s for morons and sleazeballs.

I got a lot of flipboard content on mastodon, but I don’t know if that “grows” flipboard.

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