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I really like this. This is how monetisation should work.
Looks like it’s based on the Web Monetization W3C proposal.
https://webmonetization.org/docs/
Looks neat,
though I’m always a little hesitant when the thing involves crypto. while Interledger is the main driver of the peer-to-peer payments so far, there is nothing stopping a government or banking service from creating an OpenPayment compatible service, so long run there might be a lot of flexibility and less being tied to a specific cyrpto.I’m always a little hesitant when the thing involves crypto
There is no crypto.
Ah. I think I jumped to assumptions about interledger based on the wallet terminology.
I bounced when they asked for my phone number. I think they should be working to implement Monero instead but this is still a good alternative to PayPal or Stripe.
And the enshittification process begins anew.
Brother payment transfers have been enshittified for decades.
I meant specifically for ActivityPub & the Fediverse. Now there’s money in it.
There should be some money in it. We want instance Admins to have at least the server hosting covered.
Its basically a meta tag that points at a tip jar that’s embedded in web pages… This is the same implementation as RSS and only matters to you if you are looking for it or have the ability to act on it.
That means its entirely opt-in and entirely detached from any one company
On the one hand, people should be able to make a living.
On the other, places where every Tom, Dick and Harry has their hand out expecting payment for the most inane things (i.e. tipping culture, states where billboards are allowed…) turn pretty crap pretty fast.
Something to remember is that advertising on the internet was a slow-roll at first… until all of a sudden, everyone has ads and popups.
A valid concern. However, nothing is stopping people from doing the same right now with a big old forced Kofi/patreon/whatever banner, and I’m not sure that this changes that.
The advantage of this over current options is that like RSS, you can consume/deliver it however best suits you without needing to have different accounts of different platforms.
Asking for voluntary tips isn’t enshittification. It’s surviving within the reality of shitty capitalism. I donate to my instance admins, for example, because as much as they probably would love to just run this instance for free, they can’t.
This is probably the most ethical way to ensure creators can continue to eat, especially with generative software models able to produce competing garbage in gigantic volumes.
I was about to leave a snide “Eww, crypto” comment here, but this “Interledger Protocol” seems like the most good-faith approach to digital currency I’ve seen yet? I’m not knowledgeable enough to fully understand it, but I hope it will actually turn out to be a good thing.
