Now I am in the 1% ?

Humanity risks losing its identity in pursuit of profits.

Yes, it will and zuck will feel fulfilled and stop thinking about more money.

May be not.

Would people pay ? Wiki barely gets by, we have so many models that are ad based but very few subscription based(am I wrong ?)

Lemmy.store to support lemmy.world, the community can design and sell custom community themed merch.

The 100$ was an example but I get your point. It feels like every option leads more or less to some billion dollar company becoming richer.

Just create advertising community and let all advertise on that community alone ? Thats a good idea, kind of like ‘deals’ but you pay to post there.

I kind of hate that the greatest minds on earth are working on creating products on monetizing around the current advertising model.(Ex: Google/Facebook/Amazon etc).

If the advertising model useless or less useful why do we keep doing it ? I think we hate it and that’s why we are on Lemmy but most people suck up to ads do buy useless shit. Check out the rise of Temu and Shein.

I hate ads like the rest of us but can community donations sustain the instance ? If they do why dont we have that model yet ? Why we still keeping using YouTube and Gmail etc ? What percentage of community would donate ? Will be donating to the community or the server instance ? Will there be push back from users of small communities who are paying if the money goes purely into the maintenance of large communities ?