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@deejoe @bobjonkman @bob Happy to be of assistance there.
An additional item to what @bobjonkman wrote:
Part of why Evan P was funding #Identi.ca & #StatusNet mostly out of his own pocket was that he formerly had a VC-funded enterprise behind it, but advertising revenues were weak and users demanded its removal. There were some commercial customers and some individuals that paid, but probably not nearly enough.
He had looked at some #OStatus protocol enhancements that could have improved federation and reduced cost, but many of the component protocols were sponsored by companies like #Google, which was no longer interested in them.
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@ajordan This is progress. It makes it possible to host #Pump.io on a non-exclusive server. I'm glad to see it.
@bob @bobjonkman @tekk @infernalturtle
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@notclacke Yes, there were ads on Identi.ca and the zero-price *.status.net sites. Ads went away on the SN cloud before they went away on Identica.
The complaints about ads really got started when whatever company they'd been using was replaced with Google ads. This shortly led to the site going ad-free.
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@notclacke @clacke @craigmaloney @bobjonkman The reason I remember is because I had urged Evan to keep ads (not necessarily Google ads), because I didn't believe enough Identica users would financially support the site to keep it running.
(I also ordered a paid SN site and prepaid for a year, but when I couldn't keep paying after that year, they/he didn't close it.)
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@clacke @craigmaloney @bob @deejoe @bobjonkman I also think there was a plugin for displaying ads in SN at one time, but I'm sure it is no longer in GS.