@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?

  • 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
      2·
      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
        1·
        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.