Hey everyone, since total cumulative donations for the last 3 months were less than $200 (~ $60/month), even though PornLemmy has an average of 250k uniques per month with peaks of 300k+, I have dropped plans for improvements (new frontend + backend tweaking) and will only spend $60/month worth of time and resources on PL. I won’t put ads or gather personal data for profit, but I am open to selling to someone who will. Imagining zero growth, I’m targeting an ARPU of $0.005 amortized over one year, BTC. You can contact me at [email protected] .
Here’s a lightbulb moment: stuff costs money and time, even if it’s on the internet. Whatever you get for free isn’t free - either you pay to get something from a provider, or the provider makes money off you in some way. I don’t want to go the second route, and the 250k visitors have voted with their wallets so the first route is closed. Do you feel in some way entitled to my and PL’s team time and resources? Have you contributed in any way to PL, financially or otherwise, so you can have a little say of its future? Or is this a “Entertain me, peasants” mentality?
Alex. It’s entirely unnecessary to be this hostile. I host websites, services, and build software for a living. I’m well aware of the time & resource costs of doing this… I made no claim otherwise.
I clearly approached this with good faith, asking specific, pointed, questions to surface important facts about this instance. NONE of these where answered or addressed.
I offhandedly mentioned the taste of the posts tone, and moved on saying “You probably have your reasons” to indicate I’m not attacking you. It’s just my opinion, and moved on.
You’re attacking ghosts and lashing out at me. I understand you probably have gotten a lot of flak running an instance, but that’s no reason to be so hostile and insulting.
Especially if you’re goal is to actually sell the thing.
The important thing here, the bulk of my previous comment, is what matters. Do you have additional information for those questions?
If you’re serious about offloading this instance, then lets focus on the things that matter here, which are the facts about the instance, not the egos?
How it this measured? How is it trending? What is the actual dollar value you are evaluating this at? What are the operating costs?
Separate comments so it can be kept separate from the important bits.
You may not want to make money of your users, that’s admirable, and honestly a nice thing to see. Presumably, someone who is interested in running this instance ALSO doesn’t want to turn their users into a cash cow, your post suggests that’s the only value to be had here, and is kind of forcing that as the only option.
Presumably someone might be willing to take on the costs of running this out of good will. But that good will is squandered if they must first pay a market rate which assumes the users worth is measured only in their monetization ability. And not by the community, or as a hobby.
This is the bad taste I was talking about. I’m not attacking your resources, effort…etc here. I’m trying to start a dialog.