Comment on Nominating Valtteri Bottas for *compulsory* Aussie citizenship

• No1@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh, so you’re saying Lemmy is selling freedom from capitalism, and nothing remotely related to ‘capitalism’’ should ever be posted?

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  • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No I’m saying Lemmy is a free service and that not everything has to be about buying shit.

    We get bombarded by advertisement in every cm of our lives, there’s no need for us to willing spread such evils.

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    • No1@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But did you think it was funny?

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      • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        As soon as I saw it was an Uber ad I turned it off, I don’t care if it was funny or whatever other tactic they used to engage in user engagement, it’s advertisement and I’m not going to waste my free time watching an ad.

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    • Nath@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lemmy is not free. The user community funds the developers of Lemmy by direct donations. As for us, aussie.zone costs a little over $100/month to run. Our own generous users fund us.

      While we don’t need to advertise to fund lemmy, be assured that someone somewhere is paying for it.

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      • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lemmy is free, you can download it and host it yourself. Server costs are irrelevant to the software being free.

        What’s next FOSS isn’t FOSS because I have to pay electricity to power my computer?

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