Everyone on HN complains about everything being turned into a business but everyone also wants to create their own start up and turn it into a unicorn.
I also have a mastodon account.
I'll happily make money from my efforts, but my thoughts goes in direction of creating something useful and offer hosting for it, not ads. So far I have created "nothing" (at most something I created was used by up to maybe a couple of hundred happy souls for some years to simplify the life of a local community, and I didn't make any money from it).
I simultaneously want to downvote you for your dismissive attitude towards everyone here while I also want to upvote you to bring all examples provided to the front. I chose to upvote but now you know the reason.
Also remember: many people here are shy and won't post so I think there is probably a lot more going on.