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The future of aussie.zone...
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this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2026
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Sorry to hear.
I donate monthly, so will just redirect to whatever format ends up being chosen.
Currently donate to Lemmy development as well. If money for the instance is a drama, I'll redirect that too.
(Somehow I'm in the top 10 on the leaderboard for both, which is actually kinda sad considering the small amount I'm ponying up)
With the traffic we get, probably really wouldn't make a dent. I think we could very comfortably afford no ads, provided calls for donations go out more regularly so we don't forget.
Seems to work just fine for Wikipedia, one of the most used sites on the internet.
I don't agree with your gut feeling on this. Even a much much larger instance like .world doesn't have ads.
The whole idea of Lemmy is to be unenshittified Reddit. The second we puts ads on here, what even is the point?
Donations is very sustainable for non-profit driven websites that aren't too bandwidth or storage heavy, in my view. We just need to prompt users a little more, and create ways to easily have automatic regular transactions.
Obviously all those examples are preferable to ads. So I'm not sure what you're trying to say. They are asking for donations, yes, but they are surviving without having paid promotion of external products, and that's the point.
Works for Whingepool!
I doubt very much that aussie.zone receives enough visitors to make it viable though.