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  • Ok folks, this is the third report I’ve gotten about these kinds of posts, so let me address this in a pin.

    I know we have a rabid anti-ai crowd here, and while that’s not my view, I respect yours and you are allowed to feel any way you’d like about AI projects posted here and say what you’d like as well, as long as you stay respectful.

    The reports I keep getting are:

    this content needs AI flair, it’s required.

    I’m gonna need some help understanding this one. I’ve read the sidebar (I helped write it after all), and I’ve read the Lemmy.world rules in general. There is no mention of that “requirement”, and further, how the hell do you flair a post?!

    I’m always happy to find out I’m the idiot and misinformed, so mystery reporter, please feel free to enlighten me here or in DM. In the meantime though, I don’t want to receive AI content reports here. If it’s on topic, it’s staying.











  • I don’t understand this line of thinking. A one time fee for an internet service you could potentially use for a decade? I host a number of small projects online and if I scale them way down in terms of hardware resources and don’t add a database or external services (required for basically any functionality), I’m still paying a few bucks a month. Add a database to it and it doubles. Now add a fucking crawler and your egress data rates are gonna climb quick. Not to mention the domain name itself is $12-15 a year.

    A one time fee is not compatible with an online service. Ads historically have filled this gap for recurring revenue. If you don’t want ads, there’s literally no other ethical choice to make sure you can stay in business and ideally turn a small profit.

    You keep mentioning YouTube was ad free, and sure. But that’s the classic Silicon Valley model. Offer a great product cheaper (ad free) than others, gain adoption, and once you have a huge user base, start to ratchet up the price. Either via ads or subscriptions. You need deep pockets and lots of VC money to make this work and ultimately you’re pulling a bit of a bait and switch on your users. Is that the model you want to support?