I am completely in favour of supporting my local node with ad revenue. I feel it’s a necessary evil, and that the decentralization chills out the aggression with ads. I would be completely amenable to viewing 10% interleaved clearly-marked anonymous ads that are removed from the ‘print’ view. I’d accept if those ads were tuned to suit the interests of the sub.
I’m grateful for my home instance surviving and for me that’s an acceptable tradeoff.
Most ads are shit. Some ads will tell you about a new development - oura ring 6! Now without the slimeball subscription grift! - and some of those new features are actually beneficial.
And yeah, I get that we could disagree on this. I hope that de-fed, and a policy that ads are kept on the local node, will ensure there are nodes supported solely through donation with no ads, to serve its population how they prefer. I’d like that to be a differentiating feature and not “just find one without grade-school edgelordism” instead.
I’m worried that if we become dependent on ads, then we also become beholden to the advertisers. I don’t want to have to have to use neutered words like “unalive.” Give companies an inch, and they’ll take a mile. I’d rather avoid the risk of ads controlling my internet completely.
But it seems we’re on the same page about decentralization. There could be ad-sponsored instances for you and user-sponsored instances for me, and we can all get what we prefer. We all win when there are more choices available.
I am completely in favour of supporting my local node with ad revenue. I feel it’s a necessary evil, and that the decentralization chills out the aggression with ads. I would be completely amenable to viewing 10% interleaved clearly-marked anonymous ads that are removed from the ‘print’ view. I’d accept if those ads were tuned to suit the interests of the sub.
I’m grateful for my home instance surviving and for me that’s an acceptable tradeoff.
Most ads are shit. Some ads will tell you about a new development - oura ring 6! Now without the slimeball subscription grift! - and some of those new features are actually beneficial.
And yeah, I get that we could disagree on this. I hope that de-fed, and a policy that ads are kept on the local node, will ensure there are nodes supported solely through donation with no ads, to serve its population how they prefer. I’d like that to be a differentiating feature and not “just find one without grade-school edgelordism” instead.
Give an inch, and they’ll take a mile.
Adverts have been the bane of the internet experience since adverts arrived on the internet.
We must be like Edna from The Incredibles, learn from past mistakes, and take a hard stance against them.
No ads!
I’m worried that if we become dependent on ads, then we also become beholden to the advertisers. I don’t want to have to have to use neutered words like “unalive.” Give companies an inch, and they’ll take a mile. I’d rather avoid the risk of ads controlling my internet completely.
But it seems we’re on the same page about decentralization. There could be ad-sponsored instances for you and user-sponsored instances for me, and we can all get what we prefer. We all win when there are more choices available.