All that paying does is prove you’ll pay whatever they want. Just like a blackmailer, it’s never enough. They always escalate in their attempts to extract “value”.
It’s the same damn story, time after time. “Oh, we put a few ads to cover expenses - it’ll be limited, we promise.” 3 months later: “We have a premium plan that hides ads.” Another 3 months: “We now have informational banners on premium for our own content. Since it’s our own, it’s totally not an ad!”
Then just: “Pay us a monthly rate and get served ads.”
Excellent. As a side note to the difficulty in search for communities. I just learned this: Use the community search at something like lemmyverse.net and here is the important part, right click copy the URL to the community. Not the name@instance link. You want the https//name.domain/c/community link. Put that into your home instance ALL search. I now have 100% success.
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