so I was looking at someone’s personal website from Mastodon, and noticed that they had banners to advertise other people’s servers. while server lists like fediring exist, I was thinking of a more automatic method of advertisement within someone’s website.
the concept is this: people could store advertisements (small banners, gifs) on their websites with a server and people willing to embed them could use an API to retrieve a random ad onto their website.
people would self-host their ads and “federate” with other websites to embed other ads on their website. not sure if this would scale up as well, though.
what do you think? just curious on lemmy’s POV
edit: going by the comments, this idea is quite flawed and webrings (in small sizes) are a better approach.
thanks for the help
I don’t quite grasp the concept.
Are you asking for a decentralized DoubleClick copy? What you mean by “automatic”? What problem you’re trying to solve? Who are the audiences? You said personal websites then who is the advertiser? If that’s other personal websites, what are they going to advertise?
I don’t use Mastodon so could you please elaborate more? Thanks.
I’ll try explain the idea more concisely:
should’ve made the wording more clearer in the post, my bad I guess. and to clarify, this is just an concept I thought about though and I don’t actually have plans to develop this. (I’ve also edited the post with my final opinion on the subject.)
I guess “RSS Aggregator” is what you looking for.