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I built Zyke: Discussion Forum, a discussion forum & social news aggregator like Reddit. Loads fast, moderation is transparent, has user mentions (@), hashtags (#), a democratic voting system and a modern rich text editor.

But how do I monetize without running ads? That’s why I’m skeptical about adding Zyke to the fediverse. The community dislikes products with ads, so it feels like a bad idea to me. I don’t even intend to put pop up ads, just clean banner adverts

  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Apart from the fact that ads in the fediverse are just wrong and hopefully still decades away:

    Such a flood of coders who suddenly come up with perfect, prime time ready software. In their opinion. Usually with at least one eye on monetization.

    Before so-called AI it took years and a whole team. And first came the call for testing.

    So yeah, I’m highly skeptical about how usable this would be if I even considered using it.

  • Auster@thebrainbin.org
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    4 days ago

    If you mean “how do I monetize to keep services afloat”, open donation channels, like Patreon, Ko-fi, direct donations like the American Zelle or the Brazilian Pix, referral links explicitly identified as such, etc., and be transparent about finances and that if someone likes the service, their support helps maintaining it.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Lol. Just do ads on your website? What’s the issue? The way the Fediverse works is: You federate out the content and I read it from my instance. From my perspective, I don’t even get to see you’re doing ads for your users?!

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    While people will not like you monetizing their posts, it is ultimatly something that only runs on your website. Of course if you federate out the posts people make on your website, then people will be able to access them on other sites without seeing the ads.

    Injecting ads in the posts themselves, and federating them out to other servers however would be a different matter and likely get your server defederated relatively quickly, especially if you try to track impressions through embedding images or so.

  • sit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I have not seen ads on the fediverse, yet.

    Any source of ads will get blocked by me as soon as I see it.

    If ads were fixed into the experience of the fediverse I would not use it.

    I would think most other fedi users have a similar view.

    I think most instance hosts do this for ideological reasons.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    4 days ago

    haha boy are you barking up the wrong tree

    Monetization in the verse is largely ‘community supported’… ie donations

    youre out of your element donny

  • one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 days ago

    It’s weird because no Lemmy instance is monetized. Same for Mastodon. What makes your software different?

    I used wget on Ubuntu to clone pages from piefed to build Zyke

    Ouch.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 days ago

      To add some more information to this, you can see the context yourself. (so you don’t need to search like I did) they are referencing a post the Op made from five months ago. Admitting that’s how it worked

      I tried to hyperlink it but Anubis gets in the way and throws a not found on the link for some reason, that or the original post was deleted

      edit: I finally was able to get it to work. Post is here (not instance agnostic, still not 100% how to do that)