Run ads on Wisp. There’s a 99% chance TikTok would shadowban such a project that goes against the doom scroll, attention harvesting culture. Ads on Wisp could be placed on the top and bottom of articles, in the feed etc. I don’t think there’s any other way to monetize a free app without harvesting and selling data. Create a quasi Signal/Facebook approach. Don’t collect user info, collect pseudonym info to position ads. Thinking out loud.

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Then fork, remove ads, why would I want open source application to have ads? I'm not sure if that's the way, I'd add an invite me a coffee thing that allows users to send directly to the developers or something like that but ads idk