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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!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
  • 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