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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.
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.
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.
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.