TLDR - Why don’t Lemmy instances use methods like affiliate links to increase their funding?

I’m a relatively new Lemmy user (I created my account today.) and I noticed that some Lemmy instances are slower than others and that video and GIFs aren’t supported. To fix this, Lemmy instances would require more funding. I know that Lemmings don’t want instances placing ads in their feeds, but couldn’t they find other ways to receive extra funding? For example, the Pi-hole project has affiliate links on their site and they earn a bit of money every time you buy something through a link. Why can’t Lemmy instances do the same? Edit: I don’t mean ads and I hope they don’t follow us here. I mean on the funding page for an instance, they’d have affiliate links to things like Amazon so that they could get more funding. Not as a post either, like Pi-hole’s method.

  • @TurnItOff_OnAgain
    link
    4
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Fun fact, you can link an external image and have it show up in your comment as the actual image like this

    ![image alt text](https://image url)

    The format is the same as adding a url, the key is to put the exclamation point at the beginning of the format.

    the more you know gif