User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Introducing Affiliate Marketing/@comment-44141160-20200910170735/@comment-24006128-20200910171411

Diversifying our revenue in community-focused ways allows us to fund the work we do to bring you the platform and improve it without having to plaster traditional advertising everywhere, like some other media platforms have had to do.

It also gives us the opportunity to surface cool and relevant products to our users.