• JesusRat@lemmy.world
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    We should direct everyone on Reddit to Lemmy. Then, (this is copy pasted, I’m not a bot) add an option to the third party apps for Lemmy so you can opt in to ads that support your instance and the platform. Force me to use your bullshit app so you can make more money? Fuck you. I came here from Reddit. But I’d opt in to ads to support something that is clearly better.

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        1 year ago

        Why not both? If you want to support with donating, cool. If you’d rather support by enabling ads, cool. I can see it might be a slippery slope.

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        1 year ago

        Id prefer some ads. No objection to then in rif, and let’s be honest- everything nsfw or news is an advert in some way.

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          Oh those evil sexy sexy ads…what was I talking about? Oh yeah follow me on onlyfanz, I’m doing a special right now. Boob raitings for only $0.00, Act now while supplies last!

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          I think we should try with opt-in ads.

          And it would be on me if I want to donate money, or via ads or nothing at all.

          After that we can see if that is enough or more active approach is needed.

          We can even have an opt-in for NSFW ads, which would probably make more money. Most of the time I don’t mind, it is just important that I can switch it off.

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              That would be a great way to generate revenue! All of the NSFW posts pretty much anywhere are just ads anyway, can’t see the harm in letting more ads come in.

              Speaking of that, a community/ies made of authentic NSFW content would also be refreshing. I feel like “real” people that would share their NSFW are 1: Always drowned out by 10/10 OF models. They post and see they only had 4 upvotes compared to OF models getting thousands and become disheartened against posting again. Also, would be cool if they, the real, non 1%er NSFW posters could have their own space and an actual chance to be seen. Personally I don’t find the supposed “10/10’s” with fillers, fake boobs etc. Attractive at all. I really don’t.

              Let me see some ACTUAL amateurs. How are you an amateur with an OF raking in thousands+ while using a professional camera setup, someone to film, a team posting your comment etc?

              Who in their right mind considers them as amateurs? Pamela Anderson?

              Super difficult finding “real” people nowadays. Personally, the content I filmed myself of a few exes is 1000× more alluring to me than anything on the major sites bc it’s… real.

              Something about a person doing it for $ instead of just being a perv like the rest of us takes all of the fun out of it for me.

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                Technically amateur generally just means independent in a lot of contexts or not trained. But yeah i get your point, a lot of OF content feels like the porn equivalent of mass produced cheap knives to me. Like i guess its fine for a 20 dollar knife, but my hundred dollar K bar is infinetly nicer and my 10 buck flea market knife made out of a burnt out car body at the flea market is more interesting.

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            my fear is that instances started competing just to gain more money, because the donations are enough to cover the costs(i think was the adin of lemmy.world that said so), maybe if someone pay to the admin their product i guess it’s gonna work

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      Why can’t we just pay them with money? I block every ad I can, because everything is better without ads.

      If there is no option for paying outside of using me as a datapoint, I’m going to be a freeloader.

      Also, respectfully to all those here gathered, fuck reddit. It’s over. It doesn’t love us and never did.

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        This is what fucks me off so bad. Tell me what I’m worth as a datapoint, and if I want to pay that directly to be left the fuck alone I should be able to.

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          So much this. I suspect there’s an issue around opt out making the platforms less appealing to advertisers. The people with disposable income to spend opting out of ads, might be exactly the ones advertisers want to reach.

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            That, actually, makes sense, it never crossed my mind.

            More than that, it is trackers on which, probably, no one knows how much is worth.

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        That’s what Reddit Premium was for, which I had. No adverts in return for a monthly fee.

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      I tried to use reddit and their official app for the last two days before today just to see how actually bad it was. It was nice seeing the communities that I had grown to frequent for the last 12 years. However:

      I deleted that shit after the 5th “hegetsus” ad that I saw this morning. Fuck that shit and fuck that shit hard. Like, way to know your audience lmao. Never touching that app again.

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      It doesn’t help our adoption that supposedly pro-fediverse people are purposefully not recommending Lemmy on Mastodon posts because they don’t like a community or some developer that works on lemmy

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      ads gonna make people want to everyone in their instance, and btw the donations are enought to pay of the for the server(as lemmy.world admin said) and a few thousand more just to him

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        i guess the only acceptable is if the admin want to pin some promotion

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          No pinning please, pinned posts on Reddit got out of control and is an eyesore that still pisses a small part of me off, when I have to click or scroll that tiny bit more to get to the content I actually read.