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Should Lemmy buy ads on Reddit? (fedidb.org)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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User count has plateaued at about 420K

Active user count rose significantly between 2/24 37K to 3/24 51K

Hopefully users who signed up last year are coming back to use their accounts.

Maybe because they're tired of ads on reddit?

Should we put together a collection and and buy an ad campaign on Reddit?

I can see it now:

"Ads suck. We're ad-free forever. Join Lemmy."

and

"He'll never get us. Join Lemmy." or "Don't let him get you. Join Lemmy"

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 6 months ago (2 children)

ads cost money to increase users to eventually profit from them later.

how would a decentralized lemmy profit from the increased users.

Any money spent on ads would be better off hiring more engineering resources and improving lemmy for the next time Reddit does something dumb prompting an exodus.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

June is incoming. Some shit is bound to happen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm probably ootl: why June specifically?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

First quarter since IPO?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The idea is for some users to pool some money together to buy ads, not for the platform to do it. I guess the idea is that as users, we benefit from the additional content that comes along with more users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Because of the flat and nonprofit nature of Lemmy "users pooling money together" is the platform allocating budget.