I don’t mind having ads, it provides income for boost from users who don’t pay for it. This is okay, I’m not arguing against it.

However, trash tier ads pushing medical scams served up my meta of all places are another thing entirely.

That’s not okay.

And no, “then just pay to use boost” isn’t a valid response for a few reasons :

  1. Not everyone will, and those that don’t shouldn’t be subject to manipulation and scams that could cause real world harm if they don’t know any better. That looks bad for boost.
  2. I run services myself and I don’t hold my users hostage and use that as an excuse to get them to pay me money. A good user experience should convert users, not a bad one. I’d be surprised if you or boost do as well.

This is feedback for boost, not an invitation for flaming…

    • real_squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Voyager’s cheapest support tier (out of 3) = Boost’s ad removal option. I think that compensates for the lack of ads but it’s also riskier for them, I’m surprised there isn’t a subscription-based client tbh.

      • homosapien@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        7 days ago

        Having ads in the first place is a compromise of principles. Especially meta or google ones. I’d want to switch for that very reason. Any subscription based service based on the fediverse would be bullied out of the community.

        • real_squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          7 days ago

          I see it as a balancing act. A solo project like this either gets worked on continuously, which costs money, or it’s maintained on enthusiasm alone which means the updates aren’t guaranteed.

          Going open source and pushing that task onto the community works too, but again that doesn’t guarantee continued development.
          Evidently this dev doesn’t want to do that for reasons I’m not familiar with, but you can ask them directly, they’re the mod here.