Or you could do neither. That's also an option

Yeah absolutely, but if they see that doing fun stuff like this will land them income, they’ll be more likely to do stuff like this instead of, like, going down the path of Algorithm-ing and TikToking the place. If a business learns it can make the income it needs with stuff like this? That’s preferable imo.

If you want to have a website that doesn't strangle its users' content to make it palatable to advertisers like every single other social media site, you have to accept that users need to be the financial support for it instead. Websites cost money. You can't have it both ways.