killick

Would you want to be responsible for checking IDs over the internet? No sane company would want to be responsible for getting it wrong.

Also, would you be willing to send a scan of your drivers license to a porn website? Any website?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrox
“Oreo was created in 1912 as an imitation of Hydrox.”

I also like Tusky for Mastodon because you can also use it to open up your Pixelfed account.

I don’t care for Karma-farming, but I liked having some way to tell if someone was a real community member or a throw-away account. I liked that there were some subreddits that wouldn’t let you post if you had low karma because it helped hold back the trolls.

I see you have been paying attention. Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior, so I would say your prediction is right.

Finding advertisers, billing advertisers, and collecting from advertisers is all work you can avoid of your users just give you money.

I’ve been chipping in for my mastodon server for over a year. The admin there posts the finances so we all know when it’s time to kick in again, but if we went to a paid rather than donated set-up, then I’d be OK with that. If my admin decided that he needed to run ads that were like printed newspaper ads then I wouldn’t mind so much. But ads that track me, ads that change size, ads that show up and block some or all of the screen, ads that play video and audio, pretend to be content etc are the ads I dislike and I would flee.