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I used to be top mod of piracy until the reddit blackouts last year, where I was demoted by the admins in a secret coup. I was reinstated by other mods, but have been idle since.
sunbothersco is also the top mod in /r/piracy and it mostly maintaining the megathread but is not very active in lemmy.
We absolutely will never boost posts for money here.
To be quite honest, I wouldn't mind sponsored posts as a way to support a community or instance, as long as they were completely disclosed as so and if the sponsor had no control over the moderation.
Fuck ads, they're everywhere at every level. I want to see less of them, not more.
No one is forcing you to see them, especially given that this is an open source system with open source clients.
Also, how much are you paying/contributing to the developers, admins and moderators in order to avoid the need of alternative methods of funding?
I've been saying this for over a year. The era of free stuff on the internet is coming to a close. Be prepared to pay or self host things you're used to getting for free. It's what got me into self hosting.
I mean, you're definitely not wrong. All of these mbin sites are typically pretty small but once they cross the point where you're looking at getting a second server to keep the site running then prices start to escalate.
Modern servers are pretty good but I believe depending on how well the software is written that should be somewhere around 10,000 concurrent users.
If they are using cloud hosting their prices will escalate alongside their user counts but if they are using co-location or something like that they have to go out and buy additional boxes at the cost of several thousand dollars a piece and pay for extra space in the colocation center.
They should definitely make it easy for us to contribute to running the site or at the very least do regular planned donation drives kind of like Wikipedia.
If we get instance sponsors it will probably in the instance sidebar, but for now we don't quite need them
Thanks. That's interesting, I didn't know the mods here were mods there too. I believe people here wouldn't be letting things fall apart (there is a reason people moved away from Reddit and the quality of content here is proof).
I was surprised to see those comments implying the megathread was no longer reliable though, I figured it was a stretch but had no idea why would they be thinking that.
tbh I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case cause after reddit's self-made implosion with the API access debacle, the majority of us migrated to (fediverse instances such as) mastodon and here
Can't wait to look back on this comment in a few years
You trying to imply smt?
I'd recommend ignoring the uninformed or ignorant bait
it doesn't make sense as the fediverse systems here are under an AGPL-3.0 license
I'd assume a sponsored post on a Lemmy community would just be a pinned post that a mod got money for
hmm after rereading the initial comment I mean it's not impossible but I'd posit that it's highly unlikely as the majority of us have already experienced the dynamics where doing so would drive our users away to another instance like the initial reddit implosion
and yes that'd probably be it
yes
Don't be a coward, say what you mean.
They're calling you a sussy amogussy