@Gargron yeah. Apple selling ads that appear first when people search for the name of your app is unethical, and also just makes the experience of iPhones worse

@Gargron > Maybe buying your own ad for your own keyword

That is usually the practice that most of my clients use. It's terrible to spend money on your own organic search, but that's how it works. 🤷‍♂️

@Gargron @micahflee

>> Maybe buying your own ad for your own keyword, but we don't have money to spend on that.

Based on Truth Social's financials and stock prices they might not have the money for that soon either. 🙂

@Gargron @micahflee maybe starting to giving massively bad reviews …
At least in my country mastodon is listed ok :)

@Gargron @micahflee you could view this incident as a PR opportunity, and write about it in the blogosphere, in terms of ethics, capitalism, post-twitterism, enshittification, and all what attracts Target Mastodon users. This would work as a positive story about Mastodon because the user bases are practically diametrically opposed.

@andypiper @micahflee

just btw;
yesterday at #scoopcamp I mentioned Trump stealing the mastodon source code.
Later I noticed that 30 minutes are short and that I mentioned it too short, here is some context et al.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/truth-social-is-mastodon-trump/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/mastodon-lawyers-tell-truth-social-trump-source-code-public/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/mastodon-lawyers-tell-truth-social-trump-source-code-public/