Castopod introduces Web Monetization (an ActivityPub tip jar)
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Asking for voluntary tips isn't enshittification. It's surviving within the reality of shitty capitalism. I donate to my instance admins, for example, because as much as they probably would love to just run this instance for free, they can't.
This is probably the most ethical way to ensure creators can continue to eat, especially with generative software models able to produce competing garbage in gigantic volumes.
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I meant specifically for ActivityPub & the Fediverse. Now there's money in it.
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I meant specifically for ActivityPub & the Fediverse. Now there's money in it.
Its basically a meta tag that points at a tip jar that's embedded in web pages... This is the same implementation as RSS and only matters to you if you are looking for it or have the ability to act on it.
That means its entirely opt-in and entirely detached from any one company
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Looks like it's based on the Web Monetization W3C proposal.
https://webmonetization.org/docs/
Look neat, though I'm always a little hesitant when the thing involves crypto. while Interledger is the main driver of the peer-to-peer payments so far, there is nothing stopping a government or banking service from creating an OpenPayment compatible service, so long run there might be a lot of flexibility and less being tied to a specific cyrpto.
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Looks like it's based on the Web Monetization W3C proposal.
https://webmonetization.org/docs/
Look neat, though I'm always a little hesitant when the thing involves crypto. while Interledger is the main driver of the peer-to-peer payments so far, there is nothing stopping a government or banking service from creating an OpenPayment compatible service, so long run there might be a lot of flexibility and less being tied to a specific cyrpto.
I'm always a little hesitant when the thing involves crypto
There is no crypto.
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Ah. I think I jumped to assumptions about interledger based on the wallet terminology.
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Its basically a meta tag that points at a tip jar that's embedded in web pages... This is the same implementation as RSS and only matters to you if you are looking for it or have the ability to act on it.
That means its entirely opt-in and entirely detached from any one company
On the one hand, people should be able to make a living.
On the other, places where every Tom, Dick and Harry has their hand out expecting payment for the most inane things (i.e. tipping culture, states where billboards are allowed...) turn pretty crap pretty fast.
Something to remember is that advertising on the internet was a slow-roll at first... until all of a sudden, everyone has ads and popups.
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There should be some money in it. We want instance Admins to have at least the server hosting covered.
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On the one hand, people should be able to make a living.
On the other, places where every Tom, Dick and Harry has their hand out expecting payment for the most inane things (i.e. tipping culture, states where billboards are allowed...) turn pretty crap pretty fast.
Something to remember is that advertising on the internet was a slow-roll at first... until all of a sudden, everyone has ads and popups.
A valid concern. However, nothing is stopping people from doing the same right now with a big old forced Kofi/patreon/whatever banner, and I'm not sure that this changes that.
The advantage of this over current options is that like RSS, you can consume/deliver it however best suits you without needing to have different accounts of different platforms.
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How much have you donated to your instance admin since signing up?
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My brother in Christ its a community built and run service, run on donations.
Building infrastructure to process those donations is not "enshitification"
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A valid concern. However, nothing is stopping people from doing the same right now with a big old forced Kofi/patreon/whatever banner, and I'm not sure that this changes that.
The advantage of this over current options is that like RSS, you can consume/deliver it however best suits you without needing to have different accounts of different platforms.
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Thats absolutely possible via the underlying WebPayments API. The payment "wallet" is linked in the HTML (at least for web pages, RSS, podcast RSS, etc) so someone could design an app that reads these links as QR codes.
The whole point of WebPayments is that and payment solution that you (the "spender") wants to use which is compatible can be used to send money to any compatible wallet.
Whether the payment solution is via government backed, banking systems, or crypto, all it needs to be is compatible.
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There has always been money, it's just other people footing the bill for you.
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A lot of communities on fediverse depends on menetization of their content, like comic artist, illustrator, cosplayer, and so on.
It doesn't really show on Western fediverse, but on Japanese fediverse its really visible.
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I would easily pay as you go for high quality news if it were truly a "micro" transaction. Like a few penniea or less per article.
