I tend to agree. We won’t have any “content creators” because it’s so hard to monetize fedi - and that’s a good thing! Instead we have people who post stuff they like and are interested in. It’s far better system. No ads, no “influencing”.

However, it would be great if we could create a better model for sharing hosting costs somehow - bandwidth and servers are not cheap when serving video. Donations work to an extent, but it’s always a shaky system based on kindness of select few.

I know. I meant it as a potential model for income (a platform owned by creators collective), it was just an example

Surely the ability to pay for things exists already in many forms/platforms.

But one thing that’s missing is central financing from the platform itself. The “big tech” is running wild with advertising money and this is what fuels the rapid growth.

Things like Nebula seem to work (creator owned business that offers paid subscriptions), but I’m not sure how many Nebula-exclusive creators there are, I have a feeling most of them publish stuff on YouTube as well.

Mastodon and Lemmy communities work on donations, but most of them just trundle along barely covering hosting costs.

I guess, in theory, it would be possible to create a PeerTube/Loops server that monetizes everything with ads, but I’m a bit skeptical of that unless you have very deep start-up VC money behind you to get you off the ground.

We’ve had micropayment/-donation sites like Flattr, but it never took off for real.

I think the core problem is trying to make people to pay for the content/service/membership. Most don’t. I don’t think that would change even if the option was integrated into platforms.

Evolution of Homo Sapiens was inevitable which means destruction of the entire habitat and all species in it is also unavoidable.

It’s not a question of belief

What I prefer is not getting sick and dying. I prefer following science. I prefer following government guidelines for keeping distance, washing my hands and wearing a mask when required.

I’d recommend you to contact psychiatric healthcare services (they are free here, don’t worry Mr. President) because we don’t have a president.

“Built on AT protocol, centralized on BlueSky”. No thanks.

I still see and hear occasional traditional ads, as they’re hard to avoid in public spaces or in my snail-mail box, but I don’t see online advertising since I adblock and spam-filter very aggressively. If a site is tries to anti-adblock (like Twitch) I just stop using them.

I don’t think my “daily seen” number ever gets to three digits.

I agree that idealy no one would have to donate to the poor, but we don’t live in a society like that

I do live in a society which has social security programs based on a shared taxes instead of relying on donations from rich. Same with offering base human needs like free healthcare and free education.

Well have fun with the lottery!

How about building a society where you have a freedom to do meaningful things without having to amass wealth?

How about building a society where the poor don’t have to rely on donations from the rich?

They will begin so, but the regulation means the authorities can backdoor your device way easier than they can today. It doesn’t mean your custom ROM device will be free of the scanning software forever.

It also means that you need to know that the receiving device you’re communicating with is clean custom ROM device, otherwise your messages will be scanned on the receiving side.

The regulation is a complete shitshow privacy nightmare hiding under CSAM trenchcoat. We’d do well to organize and fight against it, instead of trying to back down to the perceived safety of esoteric custom ROMs.

Why would I want to get rich?

Just a matter of time as soon as it gets passed. https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/29/europol-sought-unlimited-data-access-in-online-child-sexual-abuse-regulation/

assuming the baddies don’t already have full access to your phone data

That’s the whole point of Chat Control 2.0

It’s great as long as you can guarantee that the person you’re communicating on the receiving side does the same. Otherwise it’s useless as your messages will be read on the receiving device. In practice it will make private communication extremely cumbersome and niche.

Also, the authorities can backdoor your custom ROM device at will, when seized.

ChatControl 2.0, if passed means your entire device is backdoored so it doesn’t matter what apps you installl, they can get your info pre-encryption

Good one, got a chuckle out of me :)