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[–] Rokin@lemm.ee 70 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Nifty idea and a noble action, but it still supports advertisements

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 14 hours ago

I think Tumblr did a good job with this when they created the "Blaze" thing. For like $15, you can "blaze" a post, which will put that post in an ad slot for like 100 people, and you can pay more to show it to more people. This basically allows Tumblr to run with reduced dependency on actual ads while allowing people to force whatever garbage post they want into a random selection of users' feeds. The real kicker, though, is that you get no say in who your post is shown to - no demographics and Tumblr has no algorithm, so it's entirely random - and you can blaze other people's posts. It's like a chaotic evil version of c/CuratedTumblr or c/MicroblogMemes and very much in the spirit of Tumblr's userbase.

[–] Vladkar@lemmy.world 38 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What we need is an ad blocker that replaces all ads with turtles

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 47 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 27 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 11 hours ago

This had confused Travolta vibes, but with Muppets.