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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • I highly doubt most ads are being run at a loss. The whole point is to generate sales and increase revenue. If ads continue to persist then they are likely doing the job. Lemmy is overwhelmingly on the same page about how we feel about ads and adblockers, but the majority of the internet’s users do not. IOS users don’t have adblockers on their devices. Anyone who uses a chromium browser doesn’t either. Most people really just don’t care. I had a roommate that told me he actually likes having ads because he learns about products he didn’t know he needed! My first thought was “if you don’t know about it, you don’t need it”, but I really don’t think most people think that way. There are a lot of subtle tricks advertisers use to get viewers to think of their products/services long after the ad was seen. I think most ads are very effective at making money.


  • I’m not a developer but I believe it was the Voyager dev that explained Lemmy currently can’t do this. Apps only reach out to Lemmy servers while they are open. Push notifications would require the developers to run their own servers that the apps would reach out to while running in the background and no one wants to pay for that especially since most apps are free. I may be explaining this wrong.