[IDEA] self-hosted advertisements for personal sites (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zolax@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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so I was looking at someone's personal website from Mastodon, and noticed that they had banners to advertise other people's servers. while server lists like fediring exist, I was thinking of a more automatic method of advertisement within someone's website.

the concept is this: people could store advertisements (small banners, gifs) on their websites with a server and people willing to embed them could use an API to retrieve a random ad onto their website.

people would self-host their ads and "federate" with other websites to embed other ads on their website. not sure if this would scale up as well, though.

what do you think? just curious on lemmy's POV

edit: going by the comments, this idea is quite flawed and webrings (in small sizes) are a better approach.

thanks for the help

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[-] troydowling@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

The very last thing the Internet needs is more ads.

[-] zolax@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I'll just copy a previous reply:

the ads would ideally be limited to banners and gifs in the same style as these, with each user choosing whose ads they wish to host

no revenue or popularity (these are only for personal websites) would (hopefully) prevent users from hosting invasive ads. quite a few personal websites have banners linking to others, so this would be a more simpler approach

(although in principle, a whole project dedicated to automate this doesn’t sound good)>

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