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.
There are instances (like burggit.moe) that allow borderline child porn… If they come here, they will get flooded with that… They will be associated with this. They will either be super based and say “fuck it, let’s advertise our products to these people” (wich i would actually respect very much as long as it isn’t spam / scam) or they just leave and do like they have never seen this place…
Some corporations already market to pedos too, they certainly market to nazis on twitter. They just do it in a covert way until someone from the media notices and points it out and then pretend it‘s all a big accident. Or they don‘t give a fuck cause their reputation is trash anyway, like say for example scam organisations like shitcoins and this whole “alternative medicine” bullshit. I can‘t even blame them for it, stupid people like neo-nazis are an easy demographic to market to, just have some white guy say it‘s good and they‘ll buy it.
Either way, I‘d rather be here with some of that which I also dislike than on some corporate website again. Especially with defederation, as long as I choose a good instance I hopefully won‘t encounter it too much.
Never seen a big company do that, its mostly very related stuff as well. Only retarded Idiots by retarded idiotic products…
I would lough my ass of if I’d see a McDonald’s ad on pornhub…
Oh and burggit explicitly allows lolli hentai, its not legally child porn whee they are located and the word is very stretchable, but its basically anime drawings of short or flat chested characters mostly, so gladly not outright pedo shit.
Ah I see I thought it was like jailbait. Loli, I wouldn‘t want to see myself, but I don‘t think it should be illegal as maybe it could keep people from trying to find or even worse create the real thing.
Nah jailbait was just on reddit who’s ceo moderated it…
And same, if its not involving real people it’s ok for me to exit, even if i don’t want to see it, i can block it myself.