Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains

cocolowlander@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Tyfud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Alternatively, no ads and we can support it through donations or anti-oligarchy purchases like this shirt.

  Ads open up a pandoras box of monetization of user data/traffic/clicks/links/additional engagement, etc.

  It’s a dark, dark, dark road, and we’ve been down it dozens of times with tech giants. It never ends well.

  Let’s stop having advertising be the way we fund pseudo-free services, and instead just give people options to donate or pay into it some other way. We need to end this reliance on advertising industry for revenue.

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  • Yoga@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ads are attractive to many users because they have a simple option for universal opt out (adblocking) at the cost of everyone who isn’t a Freerider.

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    • Traister101@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes but a lot of us who do block ads block them largely because they are intolerable. I largly only started blocking ads at all because of how utterly miserable YouTube ads became.

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      • Yoga@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Gotta love loading a mobile webpage and 20% of it is readable text and the rest is advertising.

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Another reason why they just externalize the cost of the website onto anyone who can’t use an ad blocker or doesn’t know how.

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• xnx@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ads incentivize them to make the platform addicting and to prioritize ragebait because it will cause people to stay engaged in the app longer.

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• JealousJail@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Agreed. Being financially independent can also foster ad investments and lead to a popularity gain

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• Darkenfolk@dormi.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Free services? Where?

  Free services don’t really exist.

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  • m0darn@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Could you suggest alternate wording that succinctly conveys what the commenter obviously meant?

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    • Darkenfolk@dormi.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I probably could if I could be bothered to do that.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Which means no.

        Why the first comment if you were not going to bother to elaborate?

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      • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks for letting us know! 🥰

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you mean somebody, somewhere is footing the bill, then sure, if you torture the definition of “free” enough, then nothing on Earth is free. It is worth pointing out that if you enjoy (for example) Wikipedia, then you should donate if you can, because Wikipedia runs on donations. If you’re just trying to be a pedantic jackass, though, that’s another thing.

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  • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re saying this on lemmy.

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