TBH I want a option to enable ads to support my instance since I can’t donate money.
There should be a way to opt in ads . There will be a lot of people who will be willing to enable it to support their instance.
You getting ads will give them like a dollar a year and you’d absolutely have to have tracking enabled for them to even get that, unpersonalized ads are deemed pretty worthless because you don’t click on things that you aren’t into. The extra power consumption from loading ads + extra spying on you will cost you about as much as the instance would get from it.
If you donate 5 dollars a year, you’re doing more than you would by seeing ads.
I can assure you that is not the case. If an instance has any amount of users, ad revenue can be huge. It may be a couple bucks a month per user, but if you have a thousand users, that’s enough to pay for servers and then some.
The real issue comes with the requirement for more heavy moderation, if you bring in advertising.
Reddit’s reason for monetizing the APIs was making an average of a dollar a year per user. That’s despite the official app having way more downloads than the 3rd party ones.
Facebook makes 50 dollars a year (which pretty much is a couple bucks a month) per user because it tracks you not only on its own website, but on most other websites too (like & share buttons, facebook pixel, etc) even if you don’t have an account.
If you pay $5 per year to your instance host, it is more than they can make with unintrusive ads.
TBH I want a option to enable ads to support my instance since I can’t donate money. There should be a way to opt in ads . There will be a lot of people who will be willing to enable it to support their instance.
You getting ads will give them like a dollar a year and you’d absolutely have to have tracking enabled for them to even get that, unpersonalized ads are deemed pretty worthless because you don’t click on things that you aren’t into. The extra power consumption from loading ads + extra spying on you will cost you about as much as the instance would get from it.
If you donate 5 dollars a year, you’re doing more than you would by seeing ads.
I can assure you that is not the case. If an instance has any amount of users, ad revenue can be huge. It may be a couple bucks a month per user, but if you have a thousand users, that’s enough to pay for servers and then some.
The real issue comes with the requirement for more heavy moderation, if you bring in advertising.
Reddit’s reason for monetizing the APIs was making an average of a dollar a year per user. That’s despite the official app having way more downloads than the 3rd party ones.
Facebook makes 50 dollars a year (which pretty much is a couple bucks a month) per user because it tracks you not only on its own website, but on most other websites too (like & share buttons, facebook pixel, etc) even if you don’t have an account.
If you pay $5 per year to your instance host, it is more than they can make with unintrusive ads.
If you can pay a dollar a month, it’s WAY more.