@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?

  • anarchost@lemm.ee
    3·
    8 months ago

    That’s what Nostr is supposed to be for. Looking for ways to monetize decentralized social media. So far, they’ve only imagined cryptocurrency transactions.

    • Elle@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 months ago

      That’s what Nostr is supposed to be for. Looking for ways to monetize decentralized social media.

      I thought it was more interested in making a more censorship resistant form of online communication, with the crypto/monetization junk being tacked on as kind of an afterthought (but then amplified because cryptocurrency people are nothing if not vocal).

      • anarchost@lemm.ee
        3·
        8 months ago

        As far as I can tell, it was basically intended as a cryptocurrency pushing network from the beginning. Here’s some marketing babble right from their site:

        Integrated with lightning [cryptocurrency], Nostr enables new value-for-value business models that have the potential to be more fair.

        More PR speak about zaps (cryptocurrency exchanges), wallets, etc are all accessible from the official website.

        • Elle@lemmy.world
          2·
          8 months ago

          Ah yeah, my bad, I also see this on another part of the site regarding “zaps”:

          From the beginning of the Nostr protocol, it was common to see Lightning invoices in notes.

          I think I remembered it otherwise by coming at it from the decentralized comms angle instead of the cryptobro angle.