I’m fairly new and don’t 100% understand it yet, but instances are run on servers that require money. Are we heading towards seeing ads or subscriptions to raise funds instead of relying on donations to cover overhead?
Especially with the influx of new users. Hardware upgrades are needed.
I think there should be some monetization. Otherwise how will people pay for the server costs. Maybe small ads placed in the platform across the fediverse?
Advertising is poison. It corrupts everything It touches.
Users can donate to instances they wish to support.
Reminds me of anti-piracy perceptions. People are always like ‘i bought the album to support the artist’ which is great, sure, but they act like torrenting the album and just sending the artist the price of the album directly isn’t an option when it always is. Artists will always accept a donation.
100% correct. Incentives matter. Advertising delights no one and skews incentives hard.
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I’m donating $2 a month for Lemmy.world. It’s not much, but it adds up if enough people pitch in a dollar or two here and there.
It needs to have some kind of monetization. More like voluntary buy-in. Maybe the web 3.0 could fix some of the money problem here. NFT as skin or avatar, some coin or medal to give others. A portion of the sale could go towards maintenance cost and whatnot
Monetization as in, paying for the cost of the servers and bandwidth… You people think everything is free?