May 29, 2026, 11:27 PM@Mrfunkedude interesting post... ended off fully weird there.
From what I am seeing, there is commercial advertisement here but, it's still essentially an opt-in type of setup.
You can follow BBC, for example, which will lead to commercial advertisements, and it's not completely forbidden to post commercial advertisements(is it?).
It is difficult to access a total feed though since they closed down the unfiltered live feed in [january?].
It feels more box-like now.
May 29, 2026, 11:28 PM@Mrfunkedude to clarify, the closure was on mastodon.social, the largest instance, not beigeparty
@dckim that’s why I got off of mastodon.social last weekend. That’s the great thing about the Fedi. If you aren’t happy on an instance, you can join another one.
May 29, 2026, 11:38 PM@Mrfunkedude I only noticed that it had been 'taken away' when I was angling to pull the main feed and then undertake some non-sense programming hi-jinks. Then when I realized that I couldn't, I felt so completely robbed.
It just doesn't feel as open and fancy-free as it did before.
I tried switching to the Canadian instance mstdn . ca only to learn that the guy running it was being investigated for a fraud scheme at an Edmonton Community Centre.
It was shocking. So, I'm staying put for now.