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Ethical advertising for the Fediverse

Keep the Fediverse free to use — and fairly funded.

FediMedia connects ethical advertisers with participating nodes. Opt-in, privacy-respecting ads pay the people who host your community — and never follow you around the web.

Advertise with FediMedia Earn from your node
  • No tracking
  • Opt-in only
  • Human-reviewed
  • You keep the majority
Sponsored Verified follow

Fresh sourdough, every Saturday — from the co-op on 5th.

A neighbourhood bakery reaching its own community. No surveillance, just a heads-up.

via FediMedia · no tracking

R4

per verified follow

50

to the node

0

trackers

Start here

Choose your path

Whether you're here to grow, to fund, or just to understand — there's a place for you in this economy.

Advertisers

Reach engaged communities and pay only per verified follow.

Why FediMedia

Business owners

Advertise your shop, offer or event to your own town — affordably.

Advertise your business

Node operators

Earn real revenue for the storage, bandwidth and moderation you pay for.

Earn from your node

Users

Opt-in, anonymous, and it keeps the service free. Your feed, your choice.

How it works for you

The Fediverse

A fairer way to fund the open social web without selling anyone out.

Our position

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The bit everyone thinks but few say

Yes — advertising isn't popular in the Fediverse. We're not here to pretend otherwise.

Many of us left corporate social media to escape the surveillance machine, so an ad network here deserves suspicion. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater — the thing that made ads so corrosive was never advertising itself. It was the tracking, the profiles, and the extraction.

Nodes cost real money

Every new user means more storage, bandwidth, moderation and admin hours. Someone has to pay for it — and it shouldn't be the volunteer admin's overdraft.

Small businesses need to be seen

How does the local bakery, the co-op, the gig or the community event reach its own neighbours without renting access to a corporate feed?

The problem was extraction, not ads

The corporate model monetised you by watching you. We rebuilt it from scratch: opt-in, contextual, anonymous. No profiles, ever.

We're not asking the Fediverse to love advertising. We're asking it to fund its own future — on its own terms.

For advertisers

Real reach in three steps

  1. Build & fund a campaign

    Pick a Boost, choose your regions, languages and topics, set your budget, and pay by card/EFT or with Pi.

  2. We review it, your nodes run it

    Every ad is checked by a human, then placed on participating nodes that match your audience.

  3. Pay only for real follows

    You are only charged per verified follow — a durable, human relationship. Nothing else.

For node operators

Earn for the space you host

  1. Register your node

    Tell us what you run — a Mastodon, Friendica or Peertube node — and get your embed key.

  2. Paste one small widget

    A single, dependency-free snippet. You control where it appears and which origins may embed it.

  3. Earn on every verified follow

    Keep the majority of every follow you drive, paid out in Pi. No tracking of your users, ever.

Learn more for node operators

What you can promote

Three ways to grow, one honest price model

Every option is billed the same way: per verified follow. No impressions, no "estimated reach", no surprises.

Boosted Post

Put one announcement, launch or special offer in front of a community that will actually see it.

Launches, offers, announcements

R4 / verified follow

Boosted Profile / Group

Grow a durable audience for a creator, business, group or organisation — follows you keep.

Creators, businesses, groups

R3 / verified follow

Boosted Event

Drive real attendance by reaching people in the right regions and communities.

Meetups, festivals, workshops

R3 / verified follow
Coming soon

Display & Video advertising

Banner and video placements are on the way, including video inventory across the OurTube.Africa Peertube network for African creators. Same rules: contextual, opt-in, no tracking.

See the value proposition

50%

Goes to the node operator on every verified follow.

4

Rand per verified follow for a Boosted Post.

0

Third-party trackers or advertising cookies.

1

Tiny widget to install on your node.

Privacy by design

We don't track you. Not "we try not to". We don't.

No ad cookies, no fingerprinting, no cross-site pixels, no data brokers. Targeting is contextual and coarse — region, language and community topic — never a profile of you as a person.

Read our privacy promise
  • No third-party trackers
  • No personal profiles
  • Anonymous, aggregate analytics
  • Opt-in per node — always
  • Human review of every ad
  • Append-only financial ledger

Our commitments

What we promise, in writing

No borrowed audiences, no slippery metrics, no slow drift toward the thing we're trying to replace.

Privacy is the floor

If a feature can't be built without tracking, we don't build it.

Fair margins

Node operators keep the majority. We take a modest platform share and no more.

Transparency

Budgets, spend and payouts sit in an append-only ledger you can audit.

Node sovereignty

Operators opt in, choose placement, and can walk away at any time.

Questions, answered honestly

There's an FAQ for everyone

Node operators

Earnings, payments, control

Advertisers

Pricing, targeting, results

Business owners

Affordability, reach, goodwill

Users

Privacy, opt-in, cost

The Fediverse

Ethos, power, sustainability

Everything else

The full FAQ hub
Visit the FAQ hub

An advertiser economy that doesn't reward the same recycled hands.

Whether you're here to grow something or to fund the place that hosts your community, there's a seat at the table.

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Built for the whole open social web

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