@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?

  • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Do people have to make a living of it?

    Can’t we have a place online where out data isn’t being sold, aren’t being bombarded with ads, or begged for subscriptions?

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      8 months ago

      Do people have to make a living of it?

      Can’t we have a place online where out data isn’t being sold, aren’t being bombarded with ads, or begged for subscriptions?

      We can, and we do have some such spaces, thankfully. Another question to ask then is, could online workers have the sort of spaces where they’re not ceding their data to be sold by others, where they aren’t at the whims of corporate platforms wary of losing advertisers’ money, and being given scraps of the advertising money and pressed to split their subscription revenue with corporations making billions?

      If people don’t want them in the fediverse, and people are sick of the corporate web (either in part or in whole because of online workers there), where are online workers to try to make their living?

      I don’t know, but I do understand the exasperation at it all.

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      8 months ago

      People make a living online everyday through TikTok, YouTube & even Instagram.

      If the Fediverse wishes to make not only a space but a better place for those who use it for personal use but also those creating great content, then we need a way for them to earn money well not taking away the great benefits of no ads on the Fediverse.

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        8 months ago

        Ok, but

        Can’t we have a place online where out data isn’t being sold, aren’t being bombarded with ads, or begged for subscriptions?

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          So with things like @loops on the way, do you think people who will move across to the Fediverse for an alternative if TikTok gets banned should earn there living?

          The Fediverse makes sense to me for mass eyes on areas, having your data not sold and stuff, but why can’t people earn a living on it like the other parts of the Internet?

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            8 months ago

            Nothing wrong with people making money online with content. It’s just why not have a space where people can’t?

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              8 months ago

              I was more asking of the things that may replace platforms like TikTok connected to the Fediverse in the future suck as @loops

              I understand not earning money from Mastodon or Lemmy, Just like the Video side of the Fediverse needs a way to earn money without the normal ways.

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                8 months ago

                Why do we need replace other platforms? Why not just compete with them, they get the users that want to make money and be internet famous with the mindless zombies that follow it. And we get to have our own sites with a different user base.

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                  8 months ago

                  Because some of the big users on those sorts of platforms have really good content that can be helpful and annoying to login to a tracking monster platform like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or any other main stream social media.

              • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                8 months ago

                If some dev wants to make a monetized platform that uses activitypub, they can, and they can do it literally however they want whenever they want. I’m sure threads is or will be monetized in some way.

                Literally nothing is stopping anyone from doing that.

                But most current users probably wouldn’t migrate to a monetized platform, or even really want to interact with one, and new ones who do want to monetize probably won’t even move until a critical mass of people moves from the old platform(s). So there’s no incentive to create that at this point. And when the critical mass who wants to make money moves, they can figure out how they want to monetize their own platform.

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        People make a living online everyday through TikTok, YouTube & even Instagram.

        Those three platforms are now the fucking cancer of the internet

        I will give your tiny tiny “influencer”-type brain seven minutes to figure out why that is

        Hint - it’s directly relevant to your question

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          So you are willing to let thousands of people lose their job entertaining people… Kind of sucks for a video editor like myself as well as many other people that kind of require the online landscape to survive by allowing people that may not be able to work a normal job to create a living online.