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Yeah, we'll probably see monetization and corporate interests join the fedi, and that's okay because the power of the protocol lies in choice

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[–] Natanox@chaos.social 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

@dansup@mastodon.social As long as the kind if monetization ain't morally apprehensible it's actually kind of a good thing. Running instances is hella pricy at some point after all.

I just fear the time when big companies start to aggressively join incl. their whole marketing lying schemes and exploitative behaviour…

[–] dansup@mastodon.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@Natanox@chaos.social I agree, I think its a good thing for users to be able to support their admins financially, and I am looking into that for Pixelfed.

It may require some paperwork, and stuff, but if I could make it easy for admins to get a portion of in-app purchases and facilitate direct donations to admins, I think that would help with the burden of costs associated with running an instance!

[–] Natanox@chaos.social 1 points 10 months ago

@dansup@mastodon.social I recently read about the idea of "patron posts", i.e. giving people the option to set their profile up so people with invested interest in your work/art can subscribe to individual accounts.
This would both attract artists and entertainers (won't use "content creator", imho it's a derogative term), but could also finance the very instance they use if there's f.e. a 1% cut on every transaction.

Would be hell of an implementation nightmare to properly work with the "change instance"