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39 points

We should direct everyone on Reddit to Lemmy. Then, (this is copy pasted, I’m not a bot) add an option to the third party apps for Lemmy so you can opt in to ads that support your instance and the platform. Force me to use your bullshit app so you can make more money? Fuck you. I came here from Reddit. But I’d opt in to ads to support something that is clearly better.

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48 points

No ads, ads are evil.

Feed me a donation link.

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3 points

And invest the donations to permanently power Lemmy.

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8 points

Just don’t buy into any social media IPO’s lol

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1 point

Id prefer some ads. No objection to then in rif, and let’s be honest- everything nsfw or news is an advert in some way.

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Oh those evil sexy sexy ads…what was I talking about? Oh yeah follow me on onlyfanz, I’m doing a special right now. Boob raitings for only $0.00, Act now while supplies last!

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I think we should try with opt-in ads.

And it would be on me if I want to donate money, or via ads or nothing at all.

After that we can see if that is enough or more active approach is needed.

We can even have an opt-in for NSFW ads, which would probably make more money. Most of the time I don’t mind, it is just important that I can switch it off.

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Why not both? If you want to support with donating, cool. If you’d rather support by enabling ads, cool. I can see it might be a slippery slope.

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20 points

Why can’t we just pay them with money? I block every ad I can, because everything is better without ads.

If there is no option for paying outside of using me as a datapoint, I’m going to be a freeloader.

Also, respectfully to all those here gathered, fuck reddit. It’s over. It doesn’t love us and never did.

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11 points

This is what fucks me off so bad. Tell me what I’m worth as a datapoint, and if I want to pay that directly to be left the fuck alone I should be able to.

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So much this. I suspect there’s an issue around opt out making the platforms less appealing to advertisers. The people with disposable income to spend opting out of ads, might be exactly the ones advertisers want to reach.

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That’s what Reddit Premium was for, which I had. No adverts in return for a monthly fee.

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I forgot about reddit premium, 14+ years of reddit use are leaving my brain so quickly.

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1 point

How much did that cost?

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10 points

I tried to use reddit and their official app for the last two days before today just to see how actually bad it was. It was nice seeing the communities that I had grown to frequent for the last 12 years. However:

I deleted that shit after the 5th “hegetsus” ad that I saw this morning. Fuck that shit and fuck that shit hard. Like, way to know your audience lmao. Never touching that app again.

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6 points

It doesn’t help our adoption that supposedly pro-fediverse people are purposefully not recommending Lemmy on Mastodon posts because they don’t like a community or some developer that works on lemmy

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3 points

ads gonna make people want to everyone in their instance, and btw the donations are enought to pay of the for the server(as lemmy.world admin said) and a few thousand more just to him

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i guess the only acceptable is if the admin want to pin some promotion

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No pinning please, pinned posts on Reddit got out of control and is an eyesore that still pisses a small part of me off, when I have to click or scroll that tiny bit more to get to the content I actually read.

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