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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[–] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago

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.