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The only way Lemmy can remain this way, and be able to afford the rising cost of server upkeep is to rely on ad revenue generated by bots, generated on dead websites. Now ofcourse the people running the servers would need to also own these ad riddled websites.

The way it would work, is droves of AI get trained to surf the internet, click on click bait, look at ads, and simply simulate human foot traffic.

This money would then go towards server upkeep in the fediverse.

It’s kind of a loophole.

As long as the API remains public there will be add free Lemmy on the ads. But your right as long as people start coming out to these “malls” where there is no shopping to be had, the food is free, lots of chatter and there’s lots of seating. Eventually there is bound to be a catch, there’s lots of people hanging about, if I was the monopoly guy I would be figuring out how to get these people to spend money, especially the cost of keeping the mall open goes up.