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Lemmy is so good right now because there's no commercialization here.
My ublock has been at a constant "0" on this site since I've started. A youtube tab will have over a hundred by the end of a 10 minute video.
And hopefully never will be. It seems like the people hosting instances aren't in it for the money. Particularly the *.world guys have other fediverse projects big enough that they could've done something like, say, add ads to it.
The .world sites are being financed by a patreon and other donations. They even make their finances public every few months.
This is what's so great about the Fediverse! Not only do most servers make their finances public, but a lot of them can be fiscally hosted by 501(c)(3) nonprofits. Which means that they can not only receive tax-deductible donations from users, but they can also apply for grants and receive donations from charity funds. Was kinda shocked the degree to which this happens setting up my small Mastodon server lol.
The reasons to develop it also are ideological and not ecological ones.