this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
-4 points (47.6% liked)

Asklemmy

43902 readers
1101 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I'll start:

  • Some significant portion of funds go towards development of the Lemmy software. 80%? Rest goes to lemmy instance hosting.
  • Ads are reasonable and non-intrusive (no popups etc)
  • People can still browse w/ an adblocker

I personally would gladly turn off my adblocker if I knew the ads were supporting development. Hell, I might even click a few!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Virtually nobody opts in, and power users opt out. If someone is running ads, they presumably want to make money, and they'll only be making money if it's on by default

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yes. That is the point.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

exactly. This is the only type of ads I'd tolerate