What constitutes Usage Data. Is it sharing the posts I view, communities I subscribe to etc?

Does paying for a premium version stop this data being collected?

  • _spiffy@lemmy.caEnglish
    461·
    2 years ago

    I would one time pay for this, but a subscription feels meh.

    • fisco™🇬🇧🇺🇦@lemmy.mlEnglish
      142·
      2 years ago

      There are plenty of apps for Lemmy, that aren’t supported by ads, nor should they be, given the whole ethos of the fediverse…

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.mlEnglish
        206·
        2 years ago

        The ethos of the fediverse (insofar as it’s completely free with no ads) won’t be sustainable at scale; income for continued development and support does need to be taken into account at some point, and that goes for servers, frontends, apps, etc. Funding from donations only gets you so far. We will have to talk about it some day.

        However, it is entirely too soon for ads and subscriptions. This feels openly and brazenly like talking advantage of Sync overly enthusiastic fanclub and the Sync name recognition. Get in early with a big name and start making money before any other big name apps like Boost are released.

        • Kichae@kbin.social
          141·
          2 years ago

          Funding from donations only gets you so far.

          Then maybe that’s as far as we should go?

          Wikipedia makes it work.

          • golli@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            Another example would be lichess.org , which manages to compete with chess.com (a comercial site) and even pays the main developer a salary. All based purely through donations.

            I think it can definitely work even in the long run.

        • _spiffy@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I feel like as long as your home instance can keep alive with donations then it will scale well. If your home instance starts needing a subscription or shows ads you could always migrate elsewhere. (But that’s a pain I have already done that)