edit: misposted comment - see bizarre explanation below (and it's not just me)
- westworld - lovely visuals
- alias - excellent theme music
- bojack horseman
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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By not asking the same question every single day.
Good question. I just joined and I'm still learning about Lemmy but I don't see any reason why individual instances can't run ads? And maybe there will be something similar to reddit gold that can encourage donations?
Reddit used to have something similar to health bar showing how much "gold" was bought to support the website. but later on out of greed they started using it as a paywall.
We can have a health bar that doesnt paywall ANY features and very transparently displays funds raised\used for a server. It can be used to display how much funds its being supported, how much server costs are, salaries for open source maintainers, mods, etc.
This is a great idea.
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Iโm willing to pay to run my own instances (Lemmy and Akkoma). Up to a point. If I exceed that w/ other users on my instances, I will ask for donations.
IMO it sounds like that some AI corporation should host their own instance(s). They only pay for server and maintenance costs, while community does the rest and they have their data.
Would be best of both worlds, isn't it? Once they become greedy, we are f*cked again, just like Reddit did...
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ads and trackers. people worry about privacy like they r handling CIA data and all they have on their phones is videos of cats and golden retrievers
Your phone probably also has your name, address, your sin number that you've written down so you can transcribe it later into that government form and then forgot to delete, your mom sending you unsolicited advice on how to deal with your hemorrhoid which she was never supposed to know about, search history of looking up how to deal with said hemeroids, furry porn wait no those are also cat videos, that embarrassing conversation you had with your crush five years ago. There's so much that could be on your phone that most people wouldn't want strangers getting ahold of.