Castopod introduces Web Monetization (an ActivityPub tip jar)
Castopod introduces Web Monetization (an ActivityPub tip jar)
Demo of Castopod ActivityPub support and demo of Mastodon tip jar using Web Monetization, As the social networking landscape evolves, marked by moments of mass migration between platforms—often triggered by political or cultural shifts—open-source ecosystems have a unique opportunity to make a diffe...
I was about to leave a snide "Eww, crypto" comment here, but this "Interledger Protocol" seems like the most good-faith approach to digital currency I've seen yet? I'm not knowledgeable enough to fully understand it, but I hope it will actually turn out to be a good thing.
I bounced when they asked for my phone number. I think they should be working to implement Monero instead but this is still a good alternative to PayPal or Stripe.
I'm really supportive of this kind of protocol. I've long advocated for some system that allowed for micro-payments to support websites, both optional and paywall. We've seen what the expectation of having "free" services has gotten us, I'd much prefer to chip in to sites that provide me enjoyment or are informative.
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.
I really like this. This is how monetisation should work.
Looks like it's based on the Web Monetization W3C proposal.
https://webmonetization.org/docs/
Looks 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.
Ah. I think I jumped to assumptions about interledger based on the wallet terminology.
And the enshittification process begins anew.
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.
My brother in Christ, it's a community built service that runs on donations.
Building infrastructure to process those donations is not "enshitification" 😅
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.