We dont want ads.

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.

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.

Hi there!

Since you got some negative feedback here, I want to keep it cool:

• If you only want to show ads on YOUR system/instance, I think you can go on and do that. Your users can decide if they are fine with using a service that is monetizing via ads. Just make it clear to potential users BEFORE they sign up.
• If you start federating your ads to other instances on the Fediverse, you will be banned pretty quickly, so do NOT do this.
• Maybe think about a mixed approach of donations and ads, so users could work actively against being flooded with more and more ads.

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.

"Nice place y’all got here.

Who wants to help me ruin it?"

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.

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?!

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.

Pretty much all of the Fediverse exists without ads. How do you think they do it?

You don’t run ads on the fediverse, its donation/digital tip jar. As we’re a community doing this because we love this!

If you are trying to enshittify on the Fediverse, you’ll probably be added to so many blocklists that nobody would even know your instance exists.

Just by reading this post, I would probably avoid your community like the plague. As bringing that mentality into the Fediverse is very cursed indeed. You should stay on mainstream and shitty social media in that case, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to make money there.

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

how do I monetize

Apparently, just add “AI” 🤷 Venture Capitalists are gonna be knocking down your door, or so the media tells us.

Now, I wouldn’t, and if you do you’d very likely be the butt of as many jokes as you have been, suggesting ad financing.

The fediverse doesn’t much like commercialisation, or slop. It’s not a great place for traditional monetization, but terrific if you’re happy making things for people.