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I'd rather just donate.

There are no circumstances under which I would be okay with it. Including ads means there is a chance that content is removed to appease advertisers.

I will happily donate to my instance once they start accepting donations.

Under no conditions. Don't try to normalize ads.

Bro, who are these people trying to normalise ads? Do y'all work for ad-companies or have you been brainwashed enough to believe ads are the only way? Ads are a braindead problem for another problem looking for a solution.

Fuck ads. Write that 50 times. If isn't through your skull after 50, write another 50 and repeat until it is. Fuck ads.

I would much rather see the "Daily costs donation bar" that Reddit used to have

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Straightforward funding requests from the instance are just fine. Advertisements can gargle a cactus.

I'd be okay with devs promoting their own FOSS software, etc. And seeing donation buttons every now and then. No trad ads plz. We have enough of those.

Never, i would leave my instance immediately. Thankfully i dont believe this will ever happen. If admins need funds community members will donate. Through mutual cooperation we can keep these spaces free of the commercial bullshit that has infested every other faet of our lives.

In my view, the problem isn't monetizing an instance, but that ads right now are fundamentally problematic. I don't know of a way to introduce ads that wouldn't be intrusive, invade user privacy, introduce bad motives for admins, and just be generally unpleasant. If money is a problem, I think a subscriber model would be better suited for the platform rather than taking any step to normalize ads.

NO ADS! These platforms were created so that you won't see any ads ever. If you want to support the instances or platforms, you can make a donation via Patreon/ BuyMeACoffee or what they use. Here is a list of links for some platforms:

• Mastodon
• Lemmy
• kbin

• Transparency - where the ads come from, how the revenue is used, etc.
• the ads are safe and appropriate and follow the same rules as posts and comments
• the ads are clearly labeled or otherwise visually distinct and not disguised as user generated content
• the ads do not make up more than 10% of the displayed content (by any metric (screen space, text, bytes, etc.)
• the ads are in like/kind to the surrounding content (e.g. if the community is text only, so are the ads, if the community allows images but not video, then the ads cannot move, etc.)
• no tracking
• the ads can be removed via subscription or donation
• no double dipping (e.g. charging for access and still showing ads.) Members who support the instance should not see ads, members who see ads should not be required to pay.
• a transparent removal process for problematic ads

Fuck ads, don't normalize this. I left Reddit because of enshittification, and putting ads on lemmy is just another first step towards that inevitable end. I'll just spin my own instance back up. I had one running but I took it down to avoid the influx of CSAM on some instances.

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It should be opt-in.

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Everyone sucks at business. Everyone. Businesses is an art form. You can do anything you want with it.

Check this out. Free isn’t a real thing. You cannot build a site in your free time and then give it away for free and expect people to pick up the slack.

You need to charge people. So you need a secure way to handle information and payments.

NOBODY wants ads anywhere anymore. It’s mind poison from another time.

Creator owned platforms is where its at.

Nebula.tv is a great example.

If you cannot figure out a pay schedule then hire or collaborate with someone who does.

• Visually distinct, not possible to mix it up with content
• No more than 10% of visual space
• Fixed - meaning directly agreed by with instance admin, no algorithmic ads or ad exchanges
• No tracking, no cookies. simply an image and a link embedded in the site

I am all for ways to increase revenue for devs, I have donated. However ads are anti privacy by default. A way for people that don't want to donate but still want to support? How about a list of referral links people can use? Good middle ground.

Opt-in ads. Disabled by default, but gives the user the choice to support the instance if they do not want to (or can't) provide a monetary donation.

I don't want ads any other way.

I’d rather do monthly payments than having ads. Oh wait, I’m already contributing monthly.

Zero. There are other ways to monetize I’ll gladly accept first.

Any lemmy instance using ads instead of donations should be abandoned to wither and die. It should get globally defederated... because any users ok with ads are not users we want on the fediverse.

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The last 2 of your points.

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I think for a shitpost instance a custom ad network banner ads with memes and shitposts would be make sense. What I mean by that is that on geocities as well as some small internet sites there’s “custom ad networks” where they basically rely on donations and or just random people submitting “ads” that normally tend to be just links to their site, weird obscure memes, animal pictures, etc.

I think real ads for the sake of advertising on lemmy wouldn’t really be acceptable in any form, but shitposting ads have potential imo

Despite how necessary it is to pay for hosting, ads have ruined nearly all browsing experiences save one site where the ads were maintained by the site themselves and could be purchased by the users to advertise threads.

I doubt any of the instances have a mod team large enough to want to maintain dedicated “For Sale” comms and make sure nothing dubious is going on.

I already donate to my Mastodon instance, if my instance needs or wants money for any reason, they should set up a donation button and I'll subscribe. Which will give them a lot more money than they would ever make from showing me ads. We should normalize removing all ads from the internet, forever.

I'm not okay with ads anywhere at all under any conditions.