I mean, that's literally the opposite of what I want

This is top level enshittification. You're showing the user an ad that is, as OP says, the opposite of what they want, and then charging Truth Social for the impression. Magnificent!
- 'Targeted advertising' is shockingly untargeted. As the underpinning of our digital economy, the value of online advertising is dangerously overinflated.
  
  I occasionally buy tools, and damn right I research them until I know they're "buy it for life" quality
  Then I spend the next few weeks getting bombarded by ads for a tool I will never ever buy
  
  Could you imagine the carnage in tech stocks if corporations realized ads are dogshit?
  
  It's targeting what they want to sell you depending on what target group you are, it's never been what might actually interest you personally.
  
  When I watched youtube on my phone, logged into my google profile, I got generic TV ads for women's hair care products.
  I am a bald man.
  
  The only time I ever click on an ad for anything is because I want to see exactly how much they are charging for whatever clearly ridiculous thing they're advertising. Meaning I was never planning on buying it. Thankfully, that is rare.
- See also every single sponsored ad on my Instagram.

- What store is this?
  
  Droid-ify client, which is an alternative client for F-Droid.
  If you've never used F-droid, give it a go: https://f-droid.org/en/about/. It's a FOSS package manager for Android and nothing more. All it does is host, install, update, and manage applications. No ads, no sponsored suggestions, no ranking. It has strict submission requirements, only serves FOSS apps, and prominently lists apps' "anti-features" (tracking, reliance on third-party services, things you may not like).
  
  It looks like Droid-ify to me
- they're not in the defult repo :/

I like how they expertly hide the fact that it's nazi propaganda and the photos are like "uh, here's some pictures of plants! It's uh, people share uh, gardening tips yeah!"
- At least they show what they think of women.

Aurora rules. (and doesn't track you)
- If only someone finally forced iOS to be open for other stores
  
  It is if you live in Europe.
  
  You could just use something that isn't iOS
- Droid-ify is also great.
  WTF is that last search result though 🫣

I see this in Australia.
- iOS vs Android, and region I expect. Although I’m in the UK, and I can’t imagine it’s that popular here.
  
  Yeah, I’ve just scrolled down the iOS App Store, I didn’t see anything for the fediverse.
  
  I’m also using iOS in the UK. I just tried searching for Pixelfed in the App Store and the ad was for some sort of golf tutoring app.
  The top search result was the Pixelfed app and the others all other Fediverse apps.
- You’re still getting an ad as the top result, just a different ad.
  
  Yeah but he's getting a relevant ad. I'm sure Tim is pushing the Truth Social ad for free as a way to donate another million to Trump.

Don't know if it works on iOS, but in Android you can block ads systemwide by setting your DNS server to dns.adguard-dns.com.
- Note that this may occasionally interfere with things. I was having trouble with in-flight WiFi last time I flew, and I once I switched the Private DNS setting back to Automatic, it suddenly worked.
  
  True. Public wifi doesn't like it when you use your own DNS servers cause it makes it slightly harder for them to spy on you and inject ads into web pages.
  Thankfully all you gotta to is switch the DNS setting to Off (or Automatic), then re-enable it when you're home. Takes 10 seconds.
  
  Same with googling things and clicking on the first few links because they're advertisement links
- I'm using AdAway for systemwide adblocking but it doesn't block sponsored apps in Play Store. Can Adguard DNS block these?

“….without discriminating on the basis of political ideology.”
Isn’t discrimination like, the entire purpose of what Truth Social is about?
- Shhh... They don't want their feelings hurt.
- They should be taken down for false advertisement etc. You don't get to claim not to discriminate on political ideology if you also censor and delist posts that you disagree with.
  
  The democrats lacked the tenacity to ever have done it, and the criminal enterprise that currently infest our government would never cease the hardworking blowhards that fervently feed their wind-tunnel.
- The type of people that truth social is designed for (conservatives, rightists, fascists) are often shunned for discriminating against minorities. Here they're trying to pull a "no u", to say that akshually we're the ones who are discriminated against in mainstream media, and we're gonna build our own platform with no discrimination, making us more virtuous than you. They don't believe they actually have less discrimination, to them "discrimination" is a playing token in the game of morals. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that it doesn't matter whether or not they believe they have less discrimination, because having less discrimination was never the goal. The card says moops.
- If you read the reviews on the play store, it seems like people get banned left and right for posting factual truth. So much for "freedom of speech". Not like anyone expected that in the first place from a fascist echo chamber, but hey.

I didn’t realize til now the logo looks just like polyend
- Oh wow, they’re almost identical. That may come back to bite Dan on the ass.
  
  Eh, it's different enough and they're in different markets anyway. Theirs is rounded at the bottom but Pixelfed's is straight.

In stead of "ad free photo sharing" you get "photo free ad sharing"
- Also truth free.

By the way, the official Pixelfed app on the Play Store seems to have Google AdMob integrated if you care about that kind of thing. I'd recommend installing Pixelix or PixelDroid from the official F-Droid repositories instead.
- Does it have a dark mode? I used the website mostly which is alright, but tried the app when they announced it a couple days ago, and that was my first issue.
  
  Pixelix and PixelDroid both have a dark mode.
- The official pixelfed app has a repo on f-droid, you can install it via the QR code in the download link on the pixelfed website
  
  Does the F-Droid version not ship with Google AdMob?

Maybe it's because I block most ads on my network, but I don't see any ad when searching for this app on android.
- Neither do I. I only have Fdroid and the Aurora Store App. Got that MicroG so the Play Store would not even work on my phone. Using CalyxOS

I get an ad for a crypto app! (Canada).
I do have my privacy settings locked down, so they are listing non-targeted ads.
- Same, also locked down all my settings.
- I haven’t done that many Nazi-related things recently, so if it is targeted, there’s something off with Apple’s algorithm.
  
  Well, I can say that if I dare use YouTube without an account, things spiral to the extreme right very quickly! It's as if these companies are either purposely pushing this agenda, or they are being paid to from outside influences.
- Coinbase?

Apple is probably pushing that Ad free of charge. Considering how quickly Tim preemptively bent the knee just on the chance it would benefit him and the shareholders is obscene. I've always known Tim only cared about money. After all, that's the only thing he did better than Steve Jobs. Now I know for sure that he's a worthless selfish waste of a human being.
- Now I know for sure that he's a worthless selfish waste of a human being.
  -2 months later-
  ooh is that the new iPhone?

- Yeah as I say, I know why it’s there, and that you will see different ones. It just caught my eye because of the likely wildly different ideals of the two apps’ customers.
- it is a paid app for a ~~social media~~ fascist site.

I love how they have to advertise exactly what that social media (TS) isn't, a big tent social media platform. I'm sure the rubes eat it up.

There's a 99.9% chance those screenshots of the app in the App Store listing are fake considering there's no antisemitism in those posts at all. 🤔
- I mean the woman posting there identifies herself as a follower, seems on brand for the platform

I hope that AD is pay per view and not pay per click

Fuck. For a second there I thought it was an ad in Lemmy, and was enraged that this shit was pushed. Don't scare me like that

Why would you want what you searched for when instead you could have ads and fascist propaganda?

I refuse to believe this is real
- Still there mate
  
  This is what I get. Not as bad but still bad lol
- It's literally an ad? You can choose which search terms your ad appears for

Well Truth Social a siloed Mastodon instance
- Pretty much. They've made some changes but it's unclear if has changed enough to not be able to federate.

Had the same thing happen when searching for Bluesky

- Also on iPhone, got Red Note ad instead. I wonder if it’s regional or if it’s kinda random?
  Edit: I refreshed and now it’s Snapchat.
  Edit: refreshed, it’s now AOL hahaha
  
  You’ve got mail! <3

"Simplicity is key, a good cut of beef, salt, pepper and olive oil". Ironically I suspect that, despite it being steak and being posted by a woman talking about cooking, such a post would still cop a lot of flack and trigger a lot of the type of people that would choose to use Truth Social because of the mention of seed oil over animal fat.
- Also carnism is a crucial foundation of fascism. That's definitely part of their plan to recruit rubes, sociopaths, etc.

Apple thinks I’m a nerd (and they’re right) lol.

By “big tent” they must mean a circus tent.

I'm in the US and when I search the Play store for "pixelfed" I get Pixelfed as the first result; Truth Social is nowhere on the list of results for me
- Even better, use F-droid

Americas big tent

Well it's an ad, so capitalism will get an edge

When I see an ad to that, I download it on an old device, then uninstall it and give it a 2 star review.
- I appreciate your dedication

Same thing happened to me. I went to download Pixelfed yesterday after deleting instagram finally. Truth Social came up first.

i got Rednote, which is the other opposite of what I want
- people on Rednote are actually nice though, whereas Truth Social is full of MAGA Nazis

This was my result:
- well that's a different app store
- For now...

Anybody whose been plant-based and/or vegan for some time can vouch that targeted ads very frequently are not about what's actually relevant to the user, but more what their favorite corporate partners can try to gaslight you into believing is relevant. On both Facebook and YouTube I would get so many more ads and video results for animal products after making the switch, despite seeking out solely pb/vegan content and actively blocking and suppressing animal abuse content.