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.
That's it right there. It doesn't matter if your favorite business isn't like that - you open the door to them and you've started a long, one-way trip to shitsville.
Profit-seeking is a cancer that rots humanity and there's nothing else a business truly strives to do other than seek profit, every other action is a means to that end.
Can't give em an inch!! Even the ones you like!
We gotta actively be mean to companies or else we lose what we have as humans and this becomes another soulless marketplace like so many other spaces in the digital and physical world.
God, I hope not.
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!
You mean besides Arch Linux?
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.
Do you think it's more because the person themself is posting as themself or that a brand often gets seen as to professional and kinda has that bad feeling from it?
If this was someplace more commercial like reddit, I'd probably feel ok with occasionally spamming the charity I volunteer at, as it ties in with the content I share, and of course we would enjoy donations. There's 2 reasons I don't do it here.
This space I feel is meant to be for users, by users. I don't want anyone to feel they owe me something for posting, sharing, or interacting with them. I'm here because I like most of you all. I think it's great we still have an online space like this.
I also think while we need assistance, we are from all over the world, and I think people here should support their local direct action groups before they toss anything my way. Your local groups need you more than you need me. I tell everyone to kick in to them before even thinking of me. The sole exception was the LemmySilver contest, but that was by the World admin team, so that was an organization offering specifically charity money. Even then, I'm pretty sure I asked the community if they were cool with it going to my group.
I just like that money really doesn't come into play in Lemmy. Shit is expensive these days and it feels like everyone is looking to get a slice from everyone else. Keeping this place non-commercial and with nobody looking for a transactional relationship seems like a huge plus.
Unfortunately I don't have a solid answer for that because everything I have seen interacts with the community in different ways. Something like that would require some market research... In a respectful way that doesn't go against community rules or annoy the mods/admins.
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.
@sam @asklemmy not entirely sure they are what you're looking for, but I know of
@wetell mobile phone net provider
@mailbox_org email provider
@buersten maker of brushes
@neufeldt_kuhnke refurbishment I believe
@luebbermann drinks
@grob @sam @asklemmy @wetell @mailbox_org @buersten @luebbermann
We left #etsy a year ago, we closed #instagram account and few weeks later also left #linkedin .
In april 2025 we started here on #mastodon .
Since then our sales has gone up.
While #instagram was a total desaster, here in the #fediverse people are actively discussing our products and giving help to improve them.
Any more questions?
Just contact us here or
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