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Lemmy advertising model - thoughts (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by architect@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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We should think about the advertising model before its too late and it gets shoved onto us. I think each community should get its own advertiser and they get a stick post on each post which is limited to 300 chars and one url.

Its simple, non intrusive and we can make it a bidding. 80 % of the proceeds should go to the maintenance of the instance, 20 % should go to the moderators of the instance.

Would warner brothers want this for 100 $ on movies ? I think so ..

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[–] poVoq 21 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Why have ads at all? It's just wasteful and annoying.

[–] architect@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hate ads like the rest of us but can community donations sustain the instance ? If they do why dont we have that model yet ? Why we still keeping using YouTube and Gmail etc ? What percentage of community would donate ? Will be donating to the community or the server instance ? Will there be push back from users of small communities who are paying if the money goes purely into the maintenance of large communities ?

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Reddit gold was a brilliant way to support the platform and get something in return. I’ve been thinking of supporting various FOSS projects, but getting nothing but a a warm and fuzzy feeling in return just feels inadequate. Getting a Debian/Inkscape/Firefox hoodie sounds much more appealing to me, so recently I’ve been lookin for those sorts of donation options.

[–] architect@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.store to support lemmy.world, the community can design and sell custom community themed merch.

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