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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

  • TragicNotCute@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m leaving this up for now because it’s tangentially about the fediverse. I won’t allow any more posts about this specific discussion forum in the future though.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    While people will not like you monetizing their posts, it is ultimatly something that only runs on your website. Of course if you federate out the posts people make on your website, then people will be able to access them on other sites without seeing the ads.

    Injecting ads in the posts themselves, and federating them out to other servers however would be a different matter and likely get your server defederated relatively quickly, especially if you try to track impressions through embedding images or so.

  • one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.