Sure, we have open source, federated replacements for Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube. How do we get creators to use this stuff? One consideration involves the ability to pay for things.

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about PeerTube, Loops, Bandwagon, and other platforms in the Fediverse that are geared around artists. I might get flamed for this, and you’re welcome to disagree, but I think the network is in dire need of having support for commerce.

Not “Big Capitalism” commerce, but the ability for people to buy and sell things, support projects, and commission their favorite creators to keep making more stuff.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    I think its obvious that it would/will go awry.

    I’m not even sure that is possible, but I’d like to see us try something.

    Maybe the best place to start is by allowing a microtransaction service into the UI and let people add their own API keys to known players.