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submitted 1 year ago by nxlemmy@lemmy.ml to c/technology@beehaw.org

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.

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[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago

Its definitely something that can be added by the side of the instances, not in general in the main Lemmy branch.

[-] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 12 points 1 year ago

Considering a ton of people left Reddit due to shit mobile apps, most people probably won't even see it since it wouldn't be visible there

[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Apps are the most comfortable way to access online services. Most people will ignore it, if it was present. So in the end there is no change if it is shows to a few power users that use the browser because or all users, because who is going to donate are going to be the power users mostly.

[-] snowbell@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

This whole thing has been a "getting old" moment for me. I had no clue just how many people were only accessing the internet through a phone.

[-] darkkite@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

most is done through mobile

[-] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use both, but don't bother with social media on my desktop. Phone access feels nicer to use and requires less context switching, since I don't have to swap between desktop and mobile interfacing.

Besides, I use a computer all day for work and for my side projects: I need to get up and do things outside of my office, which requires mobile access

[-] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

Hard disagree honestly. There are tons of people who would be happy to support if they knew it was an option. I'm a software engineer but generally don't access this on anything but phone because web is usually lower performance and I can't pin it to my home screen. Native always feels nicer to use.

[-] nxlemmy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

People use third party apps and wont see it in the side bar. Besides having it part of the code will make it easy for each server to easily implement it and it can be automated in the future.

[-] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 1 points 1 year ago

Do you really want instances tracking their own uptime?

UPDATE server.uptime SET uptime=100%; commit;

[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago
[-] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 1 points 1 year ago

I must have misunderstood your comment then.

I thought you meant, instances displaying their own uptime in the sidebar.

Disregard.

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