I’m fairly new and don’t 100% understand it yet, but instances are run on servers that require money. Are we heading towards seeing ads or subscriptions to raise funds instead of relying on donations to cover overhead?

Especially with the influx of new users. Hardware upgrades are needed.

  • @SpaceNoodle
    -65•2 years ago

    You’re just not noticing that the ads are ads.

    • ryan213OP
      44•2 years ago

      I’ve been on Mastodon for months and haven’t noticed any ads. Just people letting me know about some product they like. Wait…

      • @thesohoriots
        63•2 years ago

        Nonsense. This place is refreshing, like the bold taste of New Coke.

      • @gharmonica
        22•2 years ago

        That’s been always the case on other platforms on top of the official ads. Damn every now and then you’d see what’s clearly an guerilla ad campaign hitting the front page of reddit.

        • @MysticSmear
          13•2 years ago

          Oh shit was I the ad the whole time??

          • AlternActive
            11•2 years ago

            Course not, if you were, i’d be able to tell, since i’m using the new Rayban® Aviators© Digital edition, now with poser ID embeded and polarized lenses with Spez protection.

            • Norgur
              5•2 years ago

              Dude! They looked so sick when I saw them in your profile pic while eating my Magic Spoon laughably expensive super duper healthy cereal!

            • @MysticSmear
              3•2 years ago

              I would have paid for spez protection. But it wasn’t available so I came to Lemmy lol

              • AlternActive
                3•2 years ago

                We call that a condom, but it’s too late for spez.

        • drphungky
          2•2 years ago

          Reddit got WAY worse in the last 5-7 years though. I think corporations got more ok with it after best practices were both cemented and more publicized after the 2016 presidential election. Previously astroturfing was there for political campaigns and state actors, but more shady. Then Russia went off the rails with agitprop, Cambridge Analytical was all in the news, and everyone realized how pervasive and easy it was. Now everyone does it, and often.

      • Margot Robbie
        14•2 years ago

        Nonsense, “No, Stupid Questions!” is actually sponsored by “Barbie”, only in theaters July 21st.

    • LoudWaterHombre
      6•2 years ago

      There are no ads, just as there are no added flavours in McDoubleBeef 100% flavour and 200% beef!!!