• theagiledev@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It is hard to give up on Reddit because of they have the size/traffic advantage. If enough activity occurs on platforms like this over time, more will be tempted to jump ship.

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      1 year ago

      I would add that the explosion of third party apps is going to be huge as well. The whole decentralized/multiple instance can be a bit challenging for some. Giving use an app that behaves like the old Reddit apps will ease the transition.

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        They should add an option to the third party apps for Lemmy to enable ads that support your instance and the platform. Force me to use your bullshit app so you can make more money? Fuck you. But I’d opt in to ads to support something that is clearly better.

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          People downvote cause seeing ads is annoying, but IMO, if it is done tastefully it is the only viable way to pay for the infrastructure, and it would prevent a collapse of the system.

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            1 year ago

            Or simply allow people to donate to their instances. Why does everything have to be done through ads?

            My home instance put up a donation request because they had to upgrade the servers. They got enough money to cover costs for the rest of the year in less than a week.

            Reddit used to do the same thing, have donations to cover costs. Ads are evil, and as a society we should be pushing back against them, not encouraging them at every opportunity.

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              1 year ago

              Sure… If donating wasn’t a pain in the ass to do due to payment methods being different across countries.

              I have a few projects I wouldn’t mind donating to, but as Patreon uses PayPal it is just more trouble than it is worth

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                PayPal is a no-no from me too. I’ve given them so many chances. When I was younger I once sold everything of value I had on eBay in order to purchase a microphone & headphones to record music. Upon payment, PayPal immediately froze my account for 6 months and wouldn’t give me access to the funds. I was flat broke and had actually gone into the hole even deeper by paying to send off all of the packages, expecting to get the $ from the items asap. Those were my last dollars. Didn’t even have gas $ to get to work. So PayPal froze the $300 ish I was supposed to get and I lost my job. Then for 6 months couldn’t sell anything else, why would I? They’d taken everything OR be paid and it really fucked me up. Called them constantly and did everything they asked to verify but it still took 6 months of waiting after I’d done everything I needed to. After that I didn’t use them for many years. Finally tried again and had similar issues fuck PayPal.

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              We need to be boycotting ads. If it’s not for a vital service don’t push it in my face. Ads are a damn plague and the internet was better before they permeated it.

              Everyone that was on the internet pre-2010 knows this. What amazes me is some have been brainwashed to support them.

              Commented about how YouTube should revert and become ad free once. People dogpiled me with “then how would it run?!”

              Idk, how did it ever run before implementing ads?

              How did… almost any site get by before ads? Donations or just not being “big” enough to require so much. If you have a good site that people value they will pay for it.

              If you’re trying to sell something that no one really wants? Well that’s why we have ads now isn’t it? Companies trying to sell some bs no one asked for.