• @NABDad
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    41 year ago

    Choice. If an instance starts adding in ads, people will move to another instance. If they find a way to be invasive enough to be seen by users in other instances, they would probably be defederated.

    • @BeardedGingerWonder
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      71 year ago

      Or they accept it as a way to pay for that instance. The servers aren’t free at the end of the day.

      • @Confuzzeled
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        51 year ago

        I’d have no issue with paying a small fee to have no ads tbh.

        • BarqsHasBite
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          41 year ago

          To a non profit or volunteer org, sure. To make spez rich, I’ll pass.

        • @BeardedGingerWonder
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          31 year ago

          The choice is the thing, I think. It’s what made the whole Reddit thing a bit bizarre for me. Like they could’ve just passed the ads through the API and used personal API keys in 3rd party apps. Those content to take the ads take them and those who prefer to pay a fee can do so.

          “We need to pay for this shit, it’s up to you how we do it” is a much easier sell IMO than “you’ll use our app and you’ll fucking like it”

          • @Confuzzeled
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            21 year ago

            At the beginning the app I was using held a poll to see whether users would pay a subscription and initially I said I’d pay £4 a month or so but it really was how spez dealt with the situation that pushed me away from the site. The total contempt shown for the people who make his site for him left me flabbergasted. Ultimately I think it’s for the best as I’d never have found lemmy and the fediverse.

      • @NABDad
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        11 year ago

        Perhaps, but I think the nature of Lemmy discourages the brute force aggressive ads that you can see elsewhere.