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[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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[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Somewhat related, there is a site I follow called royalroad. Royalroad is a site for web serials, which are basically books uploaded to the internet chapter by chapter.

Although royalroad used to be only google ads, at some point they started accepting user submitted ads. (Also, ads on that site have always been unobtrusive).

I like these ads much better because they are more privacy respecting (literally an a image and a link).

Also, they are really funny. User's with no art skills will make memes, or doodle stick figures, and I clicked on that one anyways, and the story was soooo good.

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

these simple type of ads used in the early internet was exactly the idea I was going for, having little involved to breach privacy or be used as an attack vector. more individual user ads was also what I was imagining, and looking at them, they are quite funny too

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