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I'm fairly new and don't 100% understand it yet, but instances are run on servers that require money. Are we heading towards seeing ads or subscriptions to raise funds instead of relying on donations to cover overhead?

Especially with the influx of new users. Hardware upgrades are needed.

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[-] SmallAlmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 187 points 2 years ago

No ads, no tracking, just donations. The model proved itself when twitter went to shit and a big influx of users came to mastodon, it all worked out.

[-] small44@lemmy.world 75 points 2 years ago

Many mastodon instances shut down. There's always a risk that at some point the donations are not enough to sustain an instance. It could be very problematic if mods lose their communities when an instance shutdown.

[-] Moohamin12@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago

Perhaps what we need is a backup code or some kind of exportable file with all our data (subbed communities, interactions, yadda yadda) which we can port over to a new instance if necessary.

[-] norgur@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 years ago

Yeah, especially with Lemmy which is a lot more permanent than Mastodon is. You can screenshot your old toots but you can't screenshot a userbase. There should be a way to migrate a community to another instance while keeping the subscriptions.

[-] matt@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Mastodon does this (you can download a full backup of your entire account - although not sure about media) every 7 days, which can be imported into various other Fediverse platform accounts, depending on what they allow.

I suspect that all Fediverse platforms worth their salt will make this a core feature.

[-] MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Hopefully it ends up like wikipedia

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

You're just not noticing that the ads are ads.

[-] Ryan213@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago

I've been on Mastodon for months and haven't noticed any ads. Just people letting me know about some product they like. Wait...

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 60 points 2 years ago

Nonsense. This place is refreshing, like the bold taste of New Coke.

[-] Ryan213@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

I just got thirsty all of a sudden.

[-] iatenine@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago
[-] Ryan213@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

[ smiles with brown teeth ]

[-] Mane25@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago

It's heaven in a can!

[-] gharmonica@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

That's been always the case on other platforms on top of the official ads. Damn every now and then you'd see what's clearly an guerilla ad campaign hitting the front page of reddit.

[-] MysticSmear@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Oh shit was I the ad the whole time??

[-] AlternActive@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Course not, if you were, i'd be able to tell, since i'm using the new Rayban® Aviators© Digital edition, now with poser ID embeded and polarized lenses with Spez protection.

[-] norgur@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

Dude! They looked so sick when I saw them in your profile pic while eating my Magic Spoon ~~laughably expensive~~ super duper healthy cereal!

[-] MysticSmear@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I would have paid for spez protection. But it wasn’t available so I came to Lemmy lol

[-] AlternActive@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

We call that a condom, but it's too late for spez.

[-] RickAllensLeftArm@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

The real ads were the friends we made along the way.

[-] Nythos@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe we are all ads on this disgraced day

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Speak for yourself

[-] drphungky@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Reddit got WAY worse in the last 5-7 years though. I think corporations got more ok with it after best practices were both cemented and more publicized after the 2016 presidential election. Previously astroturfing was there for political campaigns and state actors, but more shady. Then Russia went off the rails with agitprop, Cambridge Analytical was all in the news, and everyone realized how pervasive and easy it was. Now everyone does it, and often.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Nonsense, "No, Stupid Questions!" is actually sponsored by "Barbie", only in theaters July 21st.

[-] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

There are no ads, just as there are no added flavours in McDoubleBeef 100% flavour and 200% beef!!!

[-] Mane25@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago

If you have real evidence of this then you have a duty to share it.

[-] joebob@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Astroturfing is just a reality we have to live with online.

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