As long there are no invasive data collection and such, I really wouldn’t mind having some ads if that means making instances having more resources to grow and sustain them selves.
Dude just throw them a cent (and I mean quite literally, a penny). People really overestimate how little profitable ads are in the year of our Lord 2023, specially for how much a PITA they are.
The Apollo dev gave recently some GREATLY optimistic estimates of how much Reddit earns per user, around 12 cents per month. Yeah no, I prefer donating twelve cents thank you very much.
I am not fine with that. This should be community driven and not ad driven.
Server space or electricity wise, running an instance will never be free, and it will be more and more expensive as more and more successful Lemmy becomes.
Donations and such will only get Lemmy so far.
As someone else pointed out: according to Apollo dev Reddit gets at absolute most 12 cents per user per month from ads. Without data collection the ads would be far less profitable, so I’d say that donating 1 dollar a YEAR would actually result in more revenue for the maintainers than ads.
The Mastodon servers do it and I am sure Lemmy can do it as well. It also helps spread people to more servers.
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I’m donating specifically to stop this from ever happening.
Absolutely not!
The attention based, advertisement business model is the “original sin” of the internet. If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. You are what’s being sold. It changes all the incentives for the site. It’s why social media and news media have become so toxic and polarizing.
It’s why Reddit has made every one of it’s unpopular decisions. It made them, to create a better product for it’s customers (advertisers), not because it makes a better experience for us. If we want the best site for us, we need to be the customer. That means we need to be the ones who pay for it.
This is absolutely, undeniably a bad idea.
No ads EVER. I’m still learning Lemmy, I wish I could set up my own instance but have no idea where to begin.
No. Please no.
Internet ads exist to track users, and all those tracking pixels can also cause performance issues. Ads basically don’t even make that much money per impression and for the most part just frustrate people. It’s a lose/lose for everyone.
God no. I’ve seen enough ads in my life. I’ve taken a lot of steps in my life to avoid them as much as I can. Just let us have somewhere safe for once.
Please no. I’d rather contribute actual dollars (and I do!) to ensure the success of my preferred instances.
Oh god no. Let us know how much you need so we can as communities figure out together but let ads be the last resource. I know the ads always win but man would it be nice if that wasn’t always the case. I never saw the reddit ads and am spoiled (reason #1 why i am here now) i have hope and i will try to always give money and time to the one social media network i actually use and enjoy.
