ElephantInTheRoom

Better a weak filter than none at all, I guess. They’re not some multi-billion dollar corporation with the means to assign a lot of funds for spam mitigation.

This.

It’s like that with many instances. They ask you to fill out a form, answer questions or something similar to make sure you’re not some spam-bot. That’s it.

That’s the only reason I’ve used it for in the past. Following news agencies and NGOs.

Now it works the same way with mastodon.

Good to know.

To nowhere. It may take some time getting used to not watching my favorite content creators, but I think I’ll manage just fine. I’d rather not use youtube-ish sites at all instead of being forced to watch ads every few minutes.

Funny. They can try. I’m not as dependant on their platform as they wish-think. I’ll find other ways or other platforms.

Yep, that’s what I meant by “older version”.

Same here. We’ll have to wait until our instances update their servers to v0.18.

We’ll have to use a browser or a different client until then.