Very cool. This looks like a neat feature. 🥳

I block all communities that post news. I’ve never seen somewhere to enter text filters like this. Not sure I’d want to anyway.

This appears to be from 3 years ago and only funds to last 6 months. Has there been any additional funding since then?

Interesting news. Thank you for the clarification. Is there any announcement about this?

It’s nice how fast Lemmy is growing, but I think it is a good idea to manage expectations. In the world of free and open source software you can’t just throw money at the problem to make it better. The development of Lemmy will occur at will whenever someone feels like contributing. It’s not someones job to develop Lemmy so it isn’t guaranteed to happen at all.

Edit: Just for clarification I’m not suggesting to not donate. I’m just saying donating doesn’t guarantee development.

I’ve never really heard of this concept as I come skipped straight here from forums 15 years ago. People wrote posts about things they were interested in and people discussed it. Very rarely did someone simply post a link to another website with no comments of their own. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

I wish people wouldn’t use Lemmy as a “link aggregator”. Instead of posting links to other peoples content how about having an original thought for once. Why is Lemmy acting as the comments section for some other website?

• How do you feel about ads on the internet?
• What are your thoughts on the sustainability of FOSS?

I get the impression that people are for some reason uncomfortable with the concept of FOSS (Free and Open Source Sofwatre). Like they are not getting inundated with ads or things constantly asking them to give them money while getting something of value for free. They need to start inventing ways to bring money into the system so they can be comfortable again.

Things are working just fine and there is nothing to worry about.

People don’t need publicly shown gold stars to let everyone know they were a good person. You donate because you want to donate. At least on Lemmy.world they have made it known that they are doing just fine as far as donations go and if for some reason in the future they aren’t meeting those donation targets they might start asking.

Reddit? revenue? Not everything is about money. It is better that it is intentionally not about money. If someone wants to post their content on Lemmy they can do it because they want to do it. If they need a financial incentive to do it then they should not do it.

Even worse than the idea of trying to bring some strange monetary thing to Lemmy is trying to direct thought by rewarding specific behavior. This is a messed up form of conditioning that can basically be thought as punishing dissenting modes of thought.

So you are ok with ads and paid subscriptions to remove them, but you aren’t ok with Reddit charging for access to its API? How do you reconcile the contradiction here? Reddit developers have to eat too. They are just a business trying to make money. What if Lemmy instances started charging for its API and priced out third party apps then added ads/subscription to their own app? All just part of the cycle?

Part of the purpose of moving from Reddit to Lemmy is that a for profit corporation making money off of the free content of users was considered bad. I might even say this was the main point of contention and thought that spawned the creation of Lemmy. A free open platform where the users are more in control of their own content. Adding ads back into the mix means that somebody is profiting again off of the free content of the users. On principal this goes against the purpose of Lemmy. You may as well just use Reddit as the end goal of monetizing the fediverse is basically going to end up the same.

So for Sync to not be against the spirit of Lemmy it would need to remove its free version with ads so that the only thing you are paying for is the app itself and not for the content without ads.

I think you are missing the problem here. Paying for a good product or extra features is one thing. Paying to remove the ads that you added in the first place is another. Lemmy is funded entirely by donations and doesn’t have any ads.

It’s a pretty bad look that is fundamentally against the goals of Lemmy as ad free an open platform with a free API. Otherwise we are going to go down the same rabbit hole again and again like what happened with Reddit.

No single instance should get to the size of 100 million users if we are doing federation correctly.

Turns out it was free for a reason. 😅

Yes, which works for the few, but they know that the majority are completely oblivious and will just consume whatever they are given.

As long as they let you display the site onto your monitor you will be able to manipulate what you see. This is a pointless arms race that only wastes peoples time.

Funny. Thanks.