As long there are no invasive data collection and such, I really wouldn’t mind having some ads if that means making instances having more resources to grow and sustain them selves.

    • A Chilean Cyborg@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Server space or electricity wise, running an instance will never be free, and it will be more and more expensive as more and more successful Lemmy becomes.

      Donations and such will only get Lemmy so far.

      • Tnaeriv@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        As someone else pointed out: according to Apollo dev Reddit gets at absolute most 12 cents per user per month from ads. Without data collection the ads would be far less profitable, so I’d say that donating 1 dollar a YEAR would actually result in more revenue for the maintainers than ads.