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Should Lemmy buy ads on Reddit? (fedidb.org)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by zabadoh@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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User count has plateaued at about 420K

Active user count rose significantly between 2/24 37K to 3/24 51K

Hopefully users who signed up last year are coming back to use their accounts.

Maybe because they're tired of ads on reddit?

Should we put together a collection and and buy an ad campaign on Reddit?

I can see it now:

"Ads suck. We're ad-free forever. Join Lemmy."

and

"He'll never get us. Join Lemmy." or "Don't let him get you. Join Lemmy"

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

self-sustaining

I'm hesitant about that. It's still run by volunteers, and that'll end when the volunteer gets tired of paying the bills for whatever instance.

I think Lemmy needs to find a way to disassociate instance hosting from some individual kindly paying the bill. It doesn't need to be profit driven, just a way to get people to donate enough to keep the servers going.