The most active famous person I’ve found on Mastodon is @georgetakei@universeodon.com .

Other famous people:

• @JenMsft@mastodon.social - Popular Microsoft engineer. Active.
• @neilhimself@mastodon.social - Neil Gaiman. Not very active, mostly do reposts. He said he’d answer on Mastodon though, if he can.
• @shanselman@hachyderm.io - Scott Hanselman. Popular Microsoft dev. Active.
• @adamconover@mastodon.social - Adam Conover. Occasionally posts a youtube link to his show. Not much more interaction.
• @JeriLRyan@mastodon.world - Jeri Ryan, another Star Trek actor. Not active for 2 months now.
• @gretathunberg@mastodon.nu Greta Thunberg. Not posted anything for a few months now.

Yeah, its not like Lemmy hosters have money for advertising unfortunately. Best adverts they could get was word of mouth when Reddit fell.

Yeah. A bit more diversity is what I miss.

But going back to reddit doesnt feel the same anymore either. I dont know how but the people there have changed. They upvote less. They complain more. And doesnt join in on my crappy jokes. 😟

Yeah, I’m not rich enough to pay for every site and service either. A site like rockpapershotgun I left when it paywalled most of its contents, it wasn’t important enough to me to pay for. I’ve never paid for reddit, but i probably should have by how much i used it. Not that I will do that after what they’ve pulled lately. I donate to a fediverse server to put my money where my mouth is and at least pay for what I want to keep alive.

I disagree. I hate ads with a passion too. But as long as we can pay a sum to remove it, it is fair to have a free option with ads. A kinda unlimited “demo”.

We are fools for thinking anyone would give away their own time and effort for free forever. We have completely lost the perspective of how much things should cost because of how much we’ve taken for granted that was paid for with our personal data. And the biggest fools is those who think most software developers and server admins can live reliably on donations alone.

Though Youtube is taking the ads a bit far, maybe. One shouldn’t scare away users before they have even become customers.

And it could do with an automated language filter. Because I’m getting a lot of German in my feed, would rather not.

But I don’t want anyone to make assumptions about “people like me”. Those kinds of services are always ways off.

At best I could do with a feed from followers of my follows. But repost kinda does that already.

A comment to reposts would be nice though.