Jer<p>the fediverse is not "social media," because the "media" in "social media" means "stuff that exists for us to run ads next to," and the "social" in "social media" means "we didn't have to pay to create any of it."</p><p>You have to stop trying to do the things that have only ever been done for advertising reasons, in a place that is full of people who are only even here because they <em>don't want to be participants</em> in anyone's advertising scheme. <a href="https://gts.nyquil.org/tags/getoffamylawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GetOffaMyLawn</span></a></p>