Beehaw has donations and releases regular reports of how it’s being spent, I think that model is pretty good. From what I’ve seen they always get more than enough needed.
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arc@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Controversial idea but maybe federated servers should think of some way of delivering federated advertising. Some way to fund the model in a fair and equitable way while draw away funding that goes into Twitter or other social media platforms. Doesn’t stop people blocking it of course.
chicken@lemmy.world 1 year ago
schmorpel@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
No please let’s just make it not a thing anymore to finance stuff with advertising. I’m happy to support an instance I enjoy spending time on with volunteering service and/or money, but I’m here exactly because I don’t want to see ads. I’m right now a happy human, commenting on a post on the internet, without a need in the world and I don’t want to see any text, picture or video on my screen that suggests otherwise.
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We do need to think about how to keep the Fediverse running, but advertising shouldn’t be federated. If an instance wants to run ads that’s fine, but that shouldn’t be distributed to any other instances, not even if the posts and users engage with other instances. Who is going to want to see or redistribute ads for a different instance?
arc@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Like I said, controversial but it’s quite reasonable for the operators of these servers to want to raise money somehow. Even if the activity pub feed describes elements with a “this is an ad” tag and allows the recipient to choose whether to serve it or not.