arisoda

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[โ€“] arisoda 1 points 1 year ago

I don't get it. Is a toddler also some kind of mini vhs tape? I'm not too young to understand ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] arisoda 8 points 1 year ago

Carefully writing that down. You can delete your comment now. Thank you

[โ€“] arisoda 3 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] arisoda 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What are kbin magazines. Different than communities? Where

[โ€“] arisoda 2 points 1 year ago

Sub as a noun is fine. Sub can just mean subscription (to a community) or "at a lower level" so lower than an instance, thus community.

[โ€“] arisoda 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What was the sentence

[โ€“] arisoda 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes something like this should definitely be implemented. Mastodon has the feature of "moving your account" from one instance to another, but I haven't tested it yet. Don't know if it has anything like you mentioned like key management.

[โ€“] arisoda -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah forgive me for not understanding, but I thought the decentralisation is the distribution of different communites, not of the same communities. Or perhaps you are in fact talking about different communities, but then you have to make that clear.

But even so. There may be many instances, adding to the total cost, which would still increase, and so the number of people needing to pay. This may not scale. I'm very doubtful.

[โ€“] arisoda -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sure, but couldn't you still have a 30 million user community in a single instance? Or would you also like that community to be spread out over multiple instances? Probably not because that would splinter communities. But having such a big community in a single instance, is still hard to host. Expensive. And donations may not suffice.

[โ€“] arisoda -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm talking about the possibility of it growing and reaching the larger populous. They do not have adblockers. They will therefore finance the instance. Not for profit, but for sustainability. But even now, there are people here who do not mind small and non-intrusive ads if it's for a non-profit instance. Not everyone here, even now, is a world-wary anti-consumer, whatever that is.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by arisoda to c/lemmyworld
 

It probably goes against the philosophy or whatever of FOSS or Lemmy itself, but why not be a little evil so that you can actually sustain yourself? Donations can bring us far, but small non-intrusive ads can be a bliss in the skies for the people actually hosting the instance. Especially if there are millions of users uploading thousands of images and videos. This is extremely expensive.

Is running ads really that taboo?

EDIT: some people seem not to get the point of "millions of users", which presumably includes non-techies that do not use adblockers. I mean that without ads (or mining?), no instance would be able to scale to the point where it can compete with Reddit for example. If you were to want that. And not for profit, but solely for sustainability.

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