Web Monetization is Still Inching Along, But Still Too Difficult

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://frontendmasters.com/blog/web-monetization-is-still-inching-along-but-still-too-difficult/

A theory has occurred to me as I woke up (probably irrational but I'll voice it anyway, just to get it out of my head)

I have an Uphold account from when the coil Web Monetization thing was running. They recently moved from allowing standards based 2FA (TOTP) to mandating installing their mobile app to sign in even on the web.

My first thought was that this was an information grab, but now wondering if it is also to stop people cashing out during a price crash

#coil #WebMonetization #2FA

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Learn how I use the proposed #WebMonetization standard by the @Interledger Foundation on my blog to (hopefully) pay for my virtual private server! The whole secret is this tag:

```html
<link rel="monetization" href="https://ilp.gatehub.net/348218105/eur" />
```

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https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1omu52l/i_built_an_ai_chat_tool_that_helps_websites_earn/

@ricmac

the incentives are to create content for big tech platforms. to work for them. to get promoted by their algos and paid by them. we have a fedi coming together re an fair playing field for discovery, but we all need to come together to make #WebMonetization happen too. #PublicPatron

Holy shit you guys!

Someone at Meta remembered that #OpenGraphProtocol exists.

An update was made in June - https://github.com/facebook/open-graph-protocol/commits/master/

Which adds Payment link metadata - https://ogp.me/#type_payment

Nothing about #WebMonetization, sadly, but good to know the project isn't completely abandoned.

@Sascha @teezeh hat schon jemand Erfahrung mit #webmonetization?
Beeabee sieht so aus, als ob es nicht mehr gepflegt wird. Die Links zum Impressum etc sind tot.

@wjmaggos was going to boost that till I read the #WebMonetization hashtag, need some clarification on that bit :)

Most of the money that gets donated to political campaigns, gets spent on advertising. Getting people off media distribution systems with ads and instead funding the work directly, would do so much to fix our political process.

It's a huge part of why I want the #SocialWeb and #WebMonetization to win.

#DemocracyOfReach #PublicPatron

What if you could pay the same for media but have the money only go directly to the creators whose work you spent the most time with? That should be possible with decentralized social media and a protocol for bank to bank fiat transfers. If we gave enough, they'd tear down the paywalls themselves.

#SocialWeb #WebMonetization #PublicPatron

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#Foursquare #Adclicks #Snipesearch #WebMonetization #Publishing

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#FocusXYZ #DeSo #Adclicks #WebMonetization #CreatorEconomy

Meet us at @smashingconf@mastodon.social / @smashingconf@bird.makeup in New York City!

Together with @avolakatos and Marian Villa, we will be around to chat more about #WebMonetization, #OpenPayments, #Interledger and the @interledger mission!
Come say hi!

Anybody here using #pix in Brazil? Is it the open protocol standard for direct bank to bank transfers that I've been dying for in the US? I hear that this new system is squeezing middleman money transfer systems like PayPal etc out of their market and pissing off Trump. #WebMonetization

cc @Jeremiah

@ben

lots of good points but the first thing we should focus on (cause it will matter even if we don't go full authoritarian) is to just further decentralize all our media distribution and payments to them.

#peertube #owncast #WebMonetization

#DemocracyOfReach project ideas:

#FediFBNextDoor - comfy communities for normies

#FediOGTwitter - it's not microblogging, it's a news feed

#FediPodcasts - AP instead of RSS would make them social

#FediReader - articles and text to speech

#FediYouTube - places for all peertube + owncast content

#FediSpotify - separate artist sites w unified streaming

#FediRadio - indy w chat

#WebMonetization - fiat protocol

#PublicPatron - pay what you can afford based on time spent with their work

@js @daringfireball @tchambers

#peertube exists. but so does #Rumble

we need all the people possibly impacted by what we saw this week happening again, to come together to build the ecosystem around peertube. if the billionaires etc can create Rumble, we should be able to do it with a decentralized alternative that would help everybody. but I'd say that re X and Substack too and we haven't seen it. they have the money and attention that developers here lack.

we also need #WebMonetization.

What does it mean to offer "community"? This article clearly argues that it's just increasing the odds somebody with lots of subscribers will recommend your work. How many subscriptions do these people think we will read and pay for?

The #SocialWeb is the better model, we just need to better integrate consuming, boosting and supporting work beyond posts.

#Substack #Patreon #WebMonetization

https://digiday.com/media/substack-creators-attribute-their-boost-in-subscribers-to-the-platforms-community-tools/

The establishment media claims that social media is bad because people choose divisiveness and misinfo. I don't think that's true and I'm not sure they even believe it. The crap wins because of the corporate algos. We don't know what would happen without them or the advertising that powers the mainstream. We should find out. I do think the top end of the pay scale would mostly disappear, but especially with #WebMonetization, we might have a lot more independent media and quality journalism.