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People over profits is the real magic of fedi (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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People over profits is the real magic of fedi

We're building the future ✨

No shareholders. Just people.

Yeah, we'll probably see monetization and corporate interests join the fedi, and that's okay because the power of the protocol lies in choice

And the best fediverse platforms are open source and mostly good stewards of AP interop

Y'all made this happen, us devs can only take so much credit ❤️

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I agree, I think its a good thing for users to be able to support their admins financially, and I am looking into that for Pixelfed.

It may require some paperwork, and stuff, but if I could make it easy for admins to get a portion of in-app purchases and facilitate direct donations to admins, I think that would help with the burden of costs associated with running an instance!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

@[email protected] I recently read about the idea of "patron posts", i.e. giving people the option to set their profile up so people with invested interest in your work/art can subscribe to individual accounts.
This would both attract artists and entertainers (won't use "content creator", imho it's a derogative term), but could also finance the very instance they use if there's f.e. a 1% cut on every transaction.

Would be hell of an implementation nightmare to properly work with the "change instance"