What? Haven't you heard about trickle-down economics? Are you saying trickle-down doesn't work?!?!
killick
joined 2 years ago
I also like Tusky for Mastodon because you can also use it to open up your Pixelfed account.
I don't care for Karma-farming, but I liked having some way to tell if someone was a real community member or a throw-away account. I liked that there were some subreddits that wouldn't let you post if you had low karma because it helped hold back the trolls.
You can spread powder on the floor so you could see if someone had stepped in. It wouldn't keep them out unless they didn't want anyone to know they'd been in there.
After setting up my family for life, I'd use the rest to start a micro-lending company for small businesses to get started or expand. I'd open them next to dollar stores and hire lots of bilingual people. We'd have free business plan advice, too. For fun I'd buy houses in lousy neighborhoods, fix them up and fit them out with solar and geothermal systems, then offer to trade the house with a neighbor and repeat the process. This would cost money but a billion can go a long way one house at a time and see step one.
Oh, I would TOTALLY buy some US Senators. You think I could afford both Sinema & Manchin?
I see you have been paying attention. Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior, so I would say your prediction is right.
Finding advertisers, billing advertisers, and collecting from advertisers is all work you can avoid of your users just give you money.
I've been chipping in for my mastodon server for over a year. The admin there posts the finances so we all know when it's time to kick in again, but if we went to a paid rather than donated set-up, then I'd be OK with that. If my admin decided that he needed to run ads that were like printed newspaper ads then I wouldn't mind so much. But ads that track me, ads that change size, ads that show up and block some or all of the screen, ads that play video and audio, pretend to be content etc are the ads I dislike and I would flee.
OK, true, but that's why they want to charge 3rd party apps.
Ehh, if Reddit is getting traffic from people going to see the trolling, then Reddit is still making money.
I can't stand searching for a product on Amazon anymore. If I really want to use Amazon, it's much more efficient to find the amazon link using duck duck go.