Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling?

• rglullis@communick.news ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Who is going to pay for those ads? With what money? There is no single entity here with enough interest in growing the Fediverse, and any grassroots movements that we do have are strictly against commerce.

  The Lemmy devs would be making more money if they went to work for Uber Eats than as software developers, and I barely manage to convince people to pay $2.50/month to offer a professional hosting service.

  We don’t really need to “buy ads” to grow. We just need to get more people willing to invest in it.

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  • 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I run bespoke hosting and services and people are spending less and less each month. Been doing it for 30 years in various ways and forms and 2025 is by far the hardest year to get anyone to part with money. Everybody thinks they should setup something ad laden it to death, make a fortune and retire at 30. Here in the UK you should visit a loc(ish) new website and see the content disappear behind a torrent of ads, clickbait articles, AI videos etc.

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• Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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