Seen on reddit: Ran out of advertisers. Why? Yes.

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We should all club together and get some ads for the fediverse on there.
- The best ad I saw for Reddit (back before the grand Digg migration) was one day, everyone agreed to stop posting direct links to articles and instead post the links to the Reddit discussions for said articles.
  Suddenly, one day, the entire Digg feed was links to Reddit.
  We should do the same thing (on say 8/1) to give time for the different federated instances to get accustomed to the higher traffic, more activity on the feed, and more people to welcome the future Reddit refuges, just like Redditors once welcomed us during the Digg 4.0 exodus.
  
  It would be funny and I'd love to see it but you KNOW spez and his butthurt bootlicking simps are petty enough to block/ban any link that goes to any address that's associated with a Lemmy instance AND instantly "permanently suspend" any account that participates.
  Reddit admins even ejected their favorite agitator powermod, u/awkwardthepanda, for posting a John Oliver picture.
  They are truly prepared to burn every bridge.
  ...
  But maybe that's the point. Maybe they should be FORCED to burn every bridge and annihilate themselves in the inferno.
  
  Streisand effect. It would just increase the Lemmy advertisement.
  
  Links could be shortened and wouldn't show it points to Lemmy.
- And give money to Reddit? Hell no. Let’s see how much time they take to refill those ad slots by themselves.
  
  Honestly? If it’s a way to siphon users away from Reddit and towards Lemmy, we all need to look at this sort of thing as an investment. Sure, it gives Reddit some cash up front… but it also siphons away their primary value proposition to advertisers: the user base.
  Running subreddit-specific ads pushing lemmy/fediverse-hosted alternative for a couple months will do WONDERS in the long term.
  And yes, it’s distasteful to give Steve money, but at the same time, giving him a comparatively small amount of cash now will ultimately end up taking a far, FAR more significant amount of money away from him later, in the form of audience count he can offer to his advertisers.
  
  I don't know, I really don't believe ads can do that much wonders. I mean, apparently they do because otherwise we wouldn't have the whole internet plastered with them, but I personally don't think I've ever actually clicked on an ad in my entire life.
  
  Well you see, people like you and me, who are borderline obsessive about our refusal to interact - or even be presented - with ads, are unfortunately very definitely outliers in terms of user archetypes on the modern internet.
  
  Most sources I've seen claim that 42% of internet users use Adblockers, and the percentage obviously goes up as the age goes down. Considering the average Reddit user's age, the adblocking users might as well be the majority, so if you count in the people who don't block them but don't click on them either I don't think it's going to make that much of an impact.
  And honestly I'm not even that obsessive about my ad experience, it's more that they rarely have anything I would be remotely interested about.
- I'm in. Anyone got a catchy idea?
  
  Tired of ads like this? Try Lemmy!
  If you were federated, you'd be home now.
  Reddit wants to show you ads.
  Consume. Or federate.
  
  Hmm. So how about: "Tired of ads? Reddit wants to show them to you. Come to Lemmy, we are friendly and you are welcome!" I am willing to commit 100 euro if anyone can make that happen.
  
  Dude, don't waste money on that. Wanna help? Donate it to your instance 😉.
  
  You forgot to mention that Lemmy has cookies. Reddit only has stale, decade-old bread.
  
  If you're talking about tracking cookies, I'm sure Reddit has plenty of them.
  
  I'll do it if we get enough people to pitch in.
  
  Number 2 is a work of art, bravo
  
  Thanks! I don't have the energy to but an ad, but I hereby grant these words to anyone to use for that purpose.
  
  What's wrong with a good old fashioned "fuck spez"?
  
  *fuck u/spez
  Pronouncing the u just makes it better
  
  It would be funny to buy an ad that said that if it didn't involve giving him money
  
  Maybe something like, "Your ad could be here or if you're sick to the back fucking teeth of ads you should come to lemmy"
  
  Is there anything stopping an instance from adding in their own ads?
  
  Choice. If an instance starts adding in ads, people will move to another instance. If they find a way to be invasive enough to be seen by users in other instances, they would probably be defederated.
  
  Choice. If an instance starts adding in ads, people will move to another instance. If they find a way to be invasive enough to be seen by users in other instances, they would probably be defederated.
  
  Or they accept it as a way to pay for that instance. The servers aren't free at the end of the day.
  
  I'd have no issue with paying a small fee to have no ads tbh.
  
  To a non profit or volunteer org, sure. To make spez rich, I'll pass.
  
  The choice is the thing, I think. It's what made the whole Reddit thing a bit bizarre for me. Like they could've just passed the ads through the API and used personal API keys in 3rd party apps. Those content to take the ads take them and those who prefer to pay a fee can do so.
  "We need to pay for this shit, it's up to you how we do it" is a much easier sell IMO than "you'll use our app and you'll fucking like it"
  
  At the beginning the app I was using held a poll to see whether users would pay a subscription and initially I said I'd pay £4 a month or so but it really was how spez dealt with the situation that pushed me away from the site. The total contempt shown for the people who make his site for him left me flabbergasted. Ultimately I think it's for the best as I'd never have found lemmy and the fediverse.
  
  The choice is the thing, I think. It's what made the whole Reddit thing a bit bizarre for me. Like they could've just passed the ads through the API and used personal API keys in 3rd party apps. Those content to take the ads take them and those who prefer to pay a fee can do so.
  "We need to pay for this shit, it's up to you how we do it" is a much easier sell IMO than "you'll use our app and you'll fucking like it"
  
  Perhaps, but I think the nature of Lemmy discourages the brute force aggressive ads that you can see elsewhere.
  
  Compatibility of the ads with other software.
  
  "Barbie", only in theaters July 21st.

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