I built Zyke: Discussion Forum, a discussion forum & social news aggregator like Reddit. Loads fast, moderation is transparent, has user mentions (@), hashtags (#), a democratic voting system and a modern rich text editor.

But how do I monetize without running ads? That’s why I’m skeptical about adding Zyke to the fediverse. The community dislikes products with ads, so it feels like a bad idea to me. I don’t even intend to put pop up ads, just clean banner adverts

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[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

To add some more information to this, you can see the context yourself. (so you don't need to search like I did) they are referencing a post the Op made from five months ago. Admitting that's how it worked

I tried to hyperlink it but Anubis gets in the way and throws a not found on the link for some reason, that or the original post was deleted

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

You're forgetting Threads and Truth Social. I wish I could forgot them too, so no judgement.