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I'll start:

  • Some significant portion of funds go towards development of the Lemmy software. 80%? Rest goes to lemmy instance hosting.
  • Ads are reasonable and non-intrusive (no popups etc)
  • People can still browse w/ an adblocker

I personally would gladly turn off my adblocker if I knew the ads were supporting development. Hell, I might even click a few!

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[โ€“] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 90 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[โ€“] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm happy when an instance owner just says how much it costs to run a server, how many people actually manage it and how much time they spend to keep it running. I also like it when they just come out and say "we need this much money to keep things running every month, every year, etc"

Then I just donate and there are more a dozen ways people can send and recieve donations.

I don't mind paying for things and services if the person or people I'm donating to are just honest about what they need and why, especially if it's a service I use often.

[โ€“] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same, but sometimes it's not possible due to the different payment methods that don't work the same accross different countries.

It's unlikely ads would bring in any significant amount of money from them se people, in that case.