This is what the official Reddit app looks like, by the way

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247

Anonymoose 204 points 3 years ago

I just realized I'm taking my ad-free experience in Lemmy for granted. It's refreshing to have a little corner of the internet that doesn't slam you with advertising.

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victron 70 points 3 years ago

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Bingohas 38 points 3 years ago

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RickyRigatoni 10 points 3 years ago

Can I pay with runescape gp?

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osmn 5 points 3 years ago

Here some more LemBux™

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TheGreatFox 30 points 3 years ago

My ublock origin icon has been at a steady 0 ads blocked in my entire time browsing Lemmy. It feels weird.

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azimir 6 points 3 years ago

On several sites that counter climbs like crazy. I'm watching a YouTube video right now that's only 12 minutes long. The uBlock counter just hit 60.

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Serinus 17 points 3 years ago

Soon, when things go smoother, I absolutely wouldn't mind either having ads or paying a low annual fee.

The problem with Reddit was seeking out vulture capital. Turning a small profit, enough to pay people something resembling wages, isn't a bad thing.

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Lem453 17 points 3 years ago

The start of ads seems to always lead to a path of enshitification. One of the reasons I really like jellyfin is because they realized this and intentionally disabled recurrent donations. They saw what it does to Plex and saw the eventually the leadership's will try to sell out and sell the company or IPO.

Jellyfin saw the way every service seemed to go once the revenue picked up and decided they want to prevent that.

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db0 8 points 3 years ago

plenty of instances including mine and some massive ones like lemmy.world are fully funded by donations.There's absolutely no need for ads

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Hazzardis 6 points 3 years ago

Wikipedia is funded via donations, de-centralized social media could be too

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Anonymoose 4 points 3 years ago