If you wanted to send me a monetary tip for my excellent Mastodon posts, which platform would you prefer to use?
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Pixelfed has been talking about integrating with the web monetization API for a while now: https://webmonetization.org/
@gbargoud WebMonitization is impossible to use in the UK.
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What if Mastodon had this button?
(I am not involved in core development. This isn't an official proposal. I'm just noodling about with ideas. Don't shout at me in the comments or get weird.)
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@Edent As alternative; this could be a browser extension instead
@jalict what's more likely - people installing a browser extension or having direct link in the UI?
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What if Mastodon had this button?
(I am not involved in core development. This isn't an official proposal. I'm just noodling about with ideas. Don't shout at me in the comments or get weird.)
@Edent @neil this is “one of those things”… stripe/paypal have 30c+3% per transaction
So if you want to handle microtipping, you need someone to hold onto the tips and then pool them together to have a “payment consolidation” period… or escrow style.
A lot of trust plus dealing with taxes and international currencies and exchange rates etc etc.
And I dislike blockchain….. but as a concept, I’d love the idea of content creators getting paid.. but maybe patreon is a better option for creators.
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If you wanted to send me a monetary tip for my excellent Mastodon posts, which platform would you prefer to use?
(Please don't be a dick in the replies as a muting often ofends.)
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@Edent If I wanted to accept tips on social media, I would put a ko-fi/patreon/floatplane.. link into my profile.
@WooShell that relies on people visiting your profile - or you regularly posting a payment link.
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What if Mastodon had this button?
(I am not involved in core development. This isn't an official proposal. I'm just noodling about with ideas. Don't shout at me in the comments or get weird.)
@Edent Wouldn't trust any of this without proper 2FA, sadly added friction for security would probably also decrease commitment.
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@cdonat literally zero people use that. Anything which requires installing yet another app is a non-starter.
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@Edent Wouldn't trust any of this without proper 2FA, sadly added friction for security would probably also decrease commitment.
@koen_hufkens 2FA where? On Mastodon or your payment provider or somewhere else?
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@koen_hufkens 2FA where? On Mastodon or your payment provider or somewhere else?
@Edent Payment provider.
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@Edent might be desirable to some, but this would be the first part of the Mastodon UI I would have to use uBlock to hide. To me, emblematic of the constant depressing drive to monetise everything.
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@Edent Rather than changing Mastodon, a solution might be to add a link in your webfinger data.
"rel = https://sometipservice.com?id=foo@bar.com", then compatible clients can add the button.@tobyjaffey do you know of any payment providers which offer a link like that?
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What if Mastodon had this button?
(I am not involved in core development. This isn't an official proposal. I'm just noodling about with ideas. Don't shout at me in the comments or get weird.)
@Edent
This would be so awesome! -
If you wanted to send me a monetary tip for my excellent Mastodon posts, which platform would you prefer to use?
(Please don't be a dick in the replies as a muting often ofends.)
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@maexchen1 why?
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@Edent Ko-Fi or Liberapay would be my go-to! I particularly appreciate Liberapay for being very nice and simple
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@Edent Payment provider.
@Edent This being said, I like the idea. I had a coffee tip jar on some of my github projects - but it never amounted to much. I think I scored a literal coffee with it. And these tip jars are also a hellhole tax wise.
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What if Mastodon had this button?
(I am not involved in core development. This isn't an official proposal. I'm just noodling about with ideas. Don't shout at me in the comments or get weird.)
@Edent I'd be afraid that it would sharpen incentives to steal posts, impersonate, steal accounts, and maybe write divisive things.
I'm somewhat hopeful that some limits (rate-, account age-, ...-dependent most likely) on part of both involved instances could curb the post stealing and impersonation problems.
Can you think of a way to meaningfully experiment with that in a way that doesn't need to involve the potential-tipper's instance, only potential-tippee's? -
If you wanted to send me a monetary tip for my excellent Mastodon posts, which platform would you prefer to use?
(Please don't be a dick in the replies as a muting often ofends.)
@Edent If I'm going to make small tips online, needs to be something that takes credit card as I have a credit card that offers no fee overseas transactions but international bank transfers have huge fees and depending on the type of account paypal can too
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@Edent Maybeee, for people producing art, videos, etc and using Mastodon to promote, though in that case there are existing payment options available (Patreon, etc). Not sure it needs to be built in here too.
I actually think a one-off donation method would be nice. Sometimes the monthly defaults for Patreon and the like puts off people, especially in this time of cost of living crises.
Lots of things I'd love to donate to but I can't do subscriptions ATM because I forget about them.
