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How could users Monitise themselves on the Fediverse? (mastodon.social)

submitted 7 months ago by samxavia@mastodon.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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@asklemmy How could users Monitise themselves on the Fediverse?

As people possibly move across to the Fediverse to find alternatives, we have to question how people are going to make a living on this amazing platform.

Can it be fully run by donations or is there a better way for people to be paid across the Fediverse?

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[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is just an idea I'm throwing:

Similar to old Reddit Gold system, a visible marker (or a tipbot that replaces it maybe?) that shows amount of donations a post gets in a digestible manner and also contributes to server hosters.

This could incentivise keeping up servers and communities for longer times and even encourage higher quality content.

[-] samxavia@mastodon.social 3 points 7 months ago

That would be a very cool idea if it could be done across the Fediverse but annoyingly it might only be per-instance especially as most probably don't want to deal with Transactions across ActivityPub as that could get shady real quick.

Good idea though as it would be amazing to spread the cost between the instance you and the receiver are using as well as the person you are donating to.

[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Crypto could be used as a way to track all incoming - outgoing donations without dealing with any centralised payment services; but it doesn't have a good reputation and could disinterest a lot of people.

However having a centralised payment regulator could give them too much control over how the posts look to users.

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