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If your instance started showing ads, would you just leave to another instance? Do you see any way to fund the operation of an instance other than donations?

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[โ€“] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'd stay unless the ads were too bad.

However, I don't know how those ads would show up in Lemmy at its current state.

[โ€“] NENathaniel@vlemmy.net 2 points 2 years ago

Not opposed to ads necessarily, altho would be opposed to any trackers that are used for ad-targetting.

Not sure this is even possible with Lemmy tho?

[โ€“] justinh_tx@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

It depends on the number and type of ads... but honestly, the threshold at which the ad revenue would actually fund the instance would probably be too painful for me to bear.

I should be honest though and state that I fully believe that the advertising industry is a cancer in our society. Despite what it has taught us about our own psychology, I think we as a people would be better off if it didn't exist.