They all look the same to me, and I can communicate with other Lemmy users so what’s the point? (I don’t know anything about Lemmy lol I just joined)

  • Frub@lemm.eeOP
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    1 year ago

    Is there an opportunity for ad monetization as a commercial instance? Because so far I haven’t seen any

    • magnetosphere@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I think (don’t quote me on this, because I’m not sure) that the license agreement for kbin/Lemmy instances specifically forbids advertising. Then again, maybe I’m remembering an incorrect remark that some doofus made. I don’t know.for sure.

      • w2qw@aussie.zone
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        1 year ago

        It actually completely allows it as it is AGPL. The only condition is that you need to release the source code to any users of the service.

        In practice it’s hard to keep advertising working while allowing third party applications.

    • CandleTiger@programming.dev
      1·
      1 year ago

      I was talking about charging subscription fees for the instance login, not ads. I imagine if you wanted to fork lemmy and change it to inflict ads on your instance users you could do that, too.

      I’m not thinking it’s an awesome business proposition right now, but if the fediverse gets big enough that users are willing to pay for Enterprise Reliability™ then I could see it happening.

      It used to be that you could self-host your email server or use your cool friend’s server. But these days almost everybody uses commercial hosting. I see lemmy and mastodon going the same way if they grow enough.