cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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Seriously thought for a second there when scrolling that lemmy had added ads
It was a horrible feeling man
The author of Lemmy is really tired of ads and big tech so will never happen. :)
Its FOSS as well, so even if they introduce ads for some insane reason, we can fork the software and de-federate the new "adiverse."
I use Lemmy on desktop browser as I did with Reddit. An interesting note is my uBlock Origin extension shows a counter in the address bar for blocks of any kind. It did a pretty good job of blocking ads on Reddit and I would see pretty big numbers in the counter.
On Lemmy the counter never trips. I don't think there's any web site I visit regularly that doesn't trip at least a few counts. Since my uBO extension is set up to block all kinds of undesirable stuff, not just ads, it demonstrates how clean the coding is for Lemmy.