MasterPain@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agoWhat would happen to Lemmy if lemmy.world or lemmy.ml ran out of funds to continue hosting and decided to shut down their services?message-squaremessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down12
arrow-up118arrow-down1message-squareWhat would happen to Lemmy if lemmy.world or lemmy.ml ran out of funds to continue hosting and decided to shut down their services?MasterPain@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·3 months agoThis is why I think there needs to be a way to recoup costs besides donations. Having a blended income is a good thing. Donations, subscriptions, “gold”, maybe a light sprinkling of ads or sponsors, and even a paid api for LLMs to scrape.
minus-squarepmk@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoAds and data scraping? If we can’t survive without that I would rather go back to usenet, irc, and mailing lists etc.
minus-squareObserver1199@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoJust no to those shitty suggestions. Maybe you should go back to Reddit - you might be more comfortable there.
This is why I think there needs to be a way to recoup costs besides donations. Having a blended income is a good thing.
Donations, subscriptions, “gold”, maybe a light sprinkling of ads or sponsors, and even a paid api for LLMs to scrape.
Ads and data scraping? If we can’t survive without that I would rather go back to usenet, irc, and mailing lists etc.
Just no to those shitty suggestions. Maybe you should go back to Reddit - you might be more comfortable there.