I can see a huge draw for something like this. One of my core use cases for Reddit (and CheapAssGamers among other sites) was tracking video game and related sales. My default sub was a meta-reddit of just sales sites (e.g. r/SwitchDeals, r/gamebundles, r/gamedeals, etc…).
Not sure if this lines up with OP’s question (which may be more market / marketplace focused) but there is a value in communities like this, from my humble perspective.
So I rather like the idea of using lemmy to launch products. The sales of linked items to subsidize the costs to maintain the servers could be collected like a tax… Up to and including paying moderators of the server. This would have implications though. Both positive and negative.
I can see a huge draw for something like this. One of my core use cases for Reddit (and CheapAssGamers among other sites) was tracking video game and related sales. My default sub was a meta-reddit of just sales sites (e.g. r/SwitchDeals, r/gamebundles, r/gamedeals, etc…). Not sure if this lines up with OP’s question (which may be more market / marketplace focused) but there is a value in communities like this, from my humble perspective.
So I rather like the idea of using lemmy to launch products. The sales of linked items to subsidize the costs to maintain the servers could be collected like a tax… Up to and including paying moderators of the server. This would have implications though. Both positive and negative.