Technology
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
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3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist
7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
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I do. I hold the advertisement model as responsible for the state of the web today. We need to find another revenue model for funding web content, otherwise we'll be stuck with zero privacy on the web and saturated with low effort, click-bait content.
Yeah having no ads or a business model based on advertising is one of the greatest features of Mastodon, Lemmy etc. basically all free software has this advantage.
I should clarify, I don't mind seeing ads on youtube compared to twitter.
But in general I prefer not to have ads and instead be entirely community funded/donations.
The problem is, a lot of people don't have money to spare especially these days.
And, to be fair, this advertising model on youtube gave rise to new media which overall has been a good thing and an answer to cable news propaganda.
Bitcoin while there were still room in the blocks did solve that problem. Most people just didn't and still don't understand that. Just think of it as some kind of investment scheme or something used by criminals.