Individual instances can probably host ads or promoted posts. Not sure how that would work though.
Individual instances can probably host ads or promoted posts. Not sure how that would work though.
Seems like they have a decent clip of donations so far. But if they need to sell memberships or put up some innocuous banner ads to keep the service free, I’m okay with that too.
They have every right to protect themselves against spam. But that said, ever since they defederated, their activity and user numbers are down.
Wow so much misinformed hostility against Beehaw here. The mod tools for Lemmy are currently limited and they just want to protect their community from trolls and spam. There’s no conspiracy here to break federation.
Yeah, slow for me too. But it’s in its early days, so the experience can only improve from here!
The reality is that unless you have immense, immense scale (i.e., Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn), making money off social media is impossible. Twitter barely made any money before Elon Musk took it over, and it’s making less now.
Reddit is pseudo-anonymous too and is harder to monetize, because high ad rates come from being able to identify your users.
Come on, the Reddit drama is juicy AF to talk about. It’s why I’m here. Don’t gatekeep bro.
I see your point but there have been community-run message boards funded by donations in the past. I doubt Lemmy will replicate Reddit’s scale.