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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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[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The idea is for some users to pool some money together to buy ads, not for the platform to do it. I guess the idea is that as users, we benefit from the additional content that comes along with more users.

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

Because of the flat and nonprofit nature of Lemmy "users pooling money together" is the platform allocating budget.