What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like?
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First sign of crypto and I am out. I would speculate that is true of a lot of people in the Fediverse.
From my perspective, there are only two use cases for crypto 1. Criminal activity 2. Pump and dumps
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Monetizing is what ruins other places.
I like the way my home instance does financial backing through an open model, and that's part of why I chose it.
An ideal is enough contributors to keep the lights on and to reimburse the admins for their time spent in keeping it afloat. Moderation should always be a volunteer position for those that want to support their individual communities.
Any excesses in finance I would hope go towards future running costs (to a point), feature development and then charitable donations in that order. Non-profit on paper and in practice.
This is viable for a small instance. Maybe even larger ones if the users are altruistic enough as a whole.
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Yeah! How dare people try to have wealth that is actually borderless and self-sovereign. Those idiots are scammers! I will own nothing and be happy. Get out of my way, I need to step in line to bow before the Federal reserve (an organization that I fully admit is corrupt to the core and the very root of the issues in our society). I'm actually a Marxist living in a capitalist society. So, I am too cool to worry about the fact that I actually need money. I'll just pretend that I don't need it even though I REALLY do. I'll do whatever I can to piss on viable alternatives to the Fed just because people were degenerate gamblers and got owned by obvious scammers. Sure the fed can take away my money for no reason, inflate the dollar so that my savings are worth less every single day, and do whatever they feel like with my money but that is a good thing because scammers exist in the world....
::: spoiler sarcasm
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Nice rant. A very provincial take I must I add.
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Thanks.
Honestly, I hate scammers. I really do. But they're SO easy to spot.I feel that the hivemind threw the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to crypto. Thanks to Do Kwan, Sam Bankman Fried, etc, a whole viable set of technologies aimed at wrestling power from the world bank has been vilified by the hivemind.
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isn't nostr overrun with cryptobros?
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I don't know if you know this, but in many places obsession over central banks is simply not a thing. Maybe you need some real problems in your life? It would help you gain perspective.
And btw, the World Bank isn't actually a world bank in the literal sense of the word.
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Crazy idea here: would it be possible to have a model where everyone's phone is a mini personal instance, syncing with others when the user opens the app? When a phone is offline that phones content would be unavailable too, but that is part of the truly decentralised model.
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I've been wondering if there's an opportunity for instance admins (e.g. lemmy.world) to offer managed instances for user domains.
It would be great if it was easier for the average person to own a domain and use it for email, matrix, Lemmy, etc.
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I don’t have time to educate you but:
- civil asset forfeiture is a thing
- runaway inflation (and deflation of currencies) due to excessive money printing is a thing
- the work bank may not officially be a bank but what it is is a giant conglomerate of corporations that owns nations, takes part in coups, assasination, price fixing, and controls the dollar.
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Did you really think I haven't heard of this copytext? It's pretty standard spam, no?
This is not a real thing, it's more about acting out and tantrums. You don't care or understand about the issues you describe.
With the right oligarch propaganda, you can be trained to claim that spicy mayonnaise is limiting freedumz and shiiiit!!!!
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First question, why would we want monetization? people do amateur theatre, short movies for fun, volunteer do coach kids sport for fun so the whole society doesn't have to be commercial, and even Wikipedia is mostly ran by volunteers.
I mean sure, federated instance and some authors may get government grant for culture (which would be better spend than for commercial movies, or all the government money spent in AI) but not monetizing won't prevent people from contributing
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Servers and bandwidth can be expensive yo
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Realistically no
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That would drain your battery pretty quickly since it would need to be communicating with other instances constantly
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I don’t see why the Fediverse can’t be run as non-profit and by volunteers. We are 8 billion people on this planet. I’m sure we can handle it.
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I wrote that. I’m a leftist.
Done engaging with you. Thanks for the talk.
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Well there was sub.club but it died.
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So what that you're a leftist?
You were taking about "educating me" and the best you can come up with is a standard copytext that spammed everywhere?
At least come up with something new and interesting not the standard word salad about the Federal Reserve.
