• Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    This is why I think there needs to be a way to recoup costs besides donations. Having a blended income is a good thing.

    Donations, subscriptions, “gold”, maybe a light sprinkling of ads or sponsors, and even a paid api for LLMs to scrape.

    • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 months ago

      Ads and data scraping? If we can’t survive without that I would rather go back to usenet, irc, and mailing lists etc.

    • Observer1199@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      Just no to those shitty suggestions. Maybe you should go back to Reddit - you might be more comfortable there.

    • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      Donations are the best way to keep all the Lemmy instances running.

      If every active user donated just $5 a month, Lemmy would be able to thrive for years to come.

      If Wikipedia can do it, why can’t Lemmy?

    • Admetus@sopuli.xyz
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      8 months ago

      Not sure if this comment was supposed to end with /s or you actually unintentionally just listed the classic Reddit scenario.