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ads cost money to increase users to eventually profit from them later.
how would a decentralized lemmy profit from the increased users.
Any money spent on ads would be better off hiring more engineering resources and improving lemmy for the next time Reddit does something dumb prompting an exodus.
June is incoming. Some shit is bound to happen.
The idea is for some users to pool some money together to buy ads, not for the platform to do it. I guess the idea is that as users, we benefit from the additional content that comes along with more users.
Because of the flat and nonprofit nature of Lemmy "users pooling money together" is the platform allocating budget.
No. We should not give them our money.
If anything then we should post more links to relevant original Lemmy content on other platforms.
Do not give Reddit money.
My reasons against that
Not to mention that Reddit will probably shut that down
That doesn't mean we don't do anything though. A number of subreddits continue to have automod messages and pinned posts directing people elsewhere. There are a lot of people on Reddit who WANT things to succeed here.
So some other ways to help.
On Reddit:
work with subreddits to set up parallel communities here, and ease the transition of people moving
find subreddits that benefit from backups / fediverse communities, and work with them to improve things
On the fediverse:
write up guides and update existing resources to help newcomers
Post interesting content on the fediverse. People use things they get value out of, and new people won't stay if things are quiet here. Set up an RSS feed, share the cool videos you see, write about your thoughts on casual communities.
Specifically financial:
Donate to the development of a project you like. If you can, reoccurring donations provide stability for the developers to work on things.
Donate to the instances that are running the services and platforms
TLDR:
I do like your ad ideas nonetheless @zabadoh@lemmy.ml. If we were swimming in money, it could be more of a discussion
A near black screen with small text at the bottom would be fun. "Ads suck, so we removed one for you. Come to the Fediverse for ad-free social media"
I'm probably the weird one, but I specifically make it a point not to buy anything I've seen in any ad.
I do this, too. I've noticed local companies who advertise heavily on local TV/radio often charge 2x as much as the competition who don't. And the aggressive advertisers are often arrogant and difficult to work with.
And it pisses me off when I see giant insurance companies spending millions on celebrity spokespeople and Superbowl ads. That represents a lot of denied claims.
Beyond all that: fuck reddit. Don't give money to spez.
I don't want users who come over due to ads.
I actually think users who click ads are probably the ones who most need to learn about the alternatives!
yeah good for them but not for me.
lol fair. Whats good for me is more people educated on the benefits of open source!
What would be the point of trying to increase the user count, beyond "line goes up"?
I find Lemmy is better with fewer users just like Reddit used to be.
I kinda miss a few subs but they’ve been replaced by new things I discovered here.
The websites can coexist and users can do as we please.
Lemmy(software) shouldn't buy ads but I don't think there's any reason an individual instance shouldn't buy ads if they choose to. Whether or not that will bring users that are worth having, is a different story entirely.
Personally, I would never give Reddit a single penny. Their garbage CEO does plenty to get people to leave and I am sure it will keep like that.
Besides the reasons already mentioned by others here: not all users are the same, and we're better off if some of them remain in Reddit. And yet this sort of advertisement is bound to attract people who are at the very least completely clueless (otherwise they wouldn't be seeing ads), if not worse.
Instead I think that a better approach is to simply use the platform. Create posts, insightful comments, use the voting buttons. Also, discourage people from derailing non-political threads with political content.
Up to you. But i wouldnt waste the time or money unless you want your site's iq to fall at an accelerated rate
I think just trying to gather any redditor is a bad idea, there are really bad twisted redditors.
No
I wouldn't put it passed r*ddit to accept the transaction then only push them to some group that makes them look bad so if that group leaves they can claim they successfully cleaned up their platform.
Might as well, the bots, trolls and nazi's are here now anyways.
Only if it attracts Mike Pondsmith only.
No.
Fuck reddit, lmao