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ifiokambrose@ifiokambrose@piefed.social
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Would really love to add my forum to the fediverse but I’m a bit skeptical about somethings

I built Zyke: Discussion Forum, a discussion forum & social news aggregator like Reddit. Loads fast, moderation is transparent, has user mentions (@), hashtags (#), a democratic voting system and a modern rich text editor.

But how do I monetize without running ads? That’s why I’m skeptical about adding Zyke to the fediverse. The community dislikes products with ads, so it feels like a bad idea to me. I don’t even intend to put pop up ads, just clean banner adverts

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ZykeZyke: Discussion Forum. Talk, explore internet culture and ideas.Join Zyke, an open discussion forum where communities share ideas, debate trends and explore internet culture. Create posts, vote and discover what matters.
A_norny_mousse@A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip

Replying to an earlier post

Apart from the fact that ads in the fediverse are just wrong and hopefully still decades away:

Such a flood of coders who suddenly come up with perfect, prime time ready software. In their opinion. Usually with at least one eye on monetization.

Before so-called AI it took years and a whole team. And first came the call for testing.

So yeah, I’m highly skeptical about how usable this would be if I even considered using it.

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