cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1239521

Reddit used to have something similar to health bar showing how much “gold” was bought to support the website. but later on out of greed they started using it as a paywall.

We can have a health bar that doesnt paywall ANY features and very transparently displays funds raised\used for a server. It can be used to display how much funds its being supported, how much server costs are, salaries for open source maintainers, mods, etc.

  • knowncarbage@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Reddit was maintained by unpaid mods. It it now being shat on by unpaid mods.

    I appreciate the need for funding I just don’t see the ‘funds health bar’ being useful fediverse server feature.

    • NXL@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Reddit is clearly owned by Venture Capitalists that are forcing the site to go to shit so they can fill their pockets with ad revenue. If we self funded reddit or forums etc so that we can keep ot sustainable and focused on being the best instead of making a small number of people an infinite amount of money we would still have the reddit we love.