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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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 would be very strongly against that. Incentivising people to make particularly notable posts will encourage all sorts of bad actors to post inflammatory and untrue rubbish.
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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 would like this as a feature, but I wouldnt like to see it as prominently as that. Maybe by clicking on someone's profile.
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@Edent As I understand it, yes. It is like with cash.
@itsFriday ah, that's a shame.
It also looks like the merchant gets no info about the customer - which might also be problematic if an individual/company is sanctioned.sanctioned
I'm sure it is a technically clever system, but doesn't seem to meet user needs. -
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 Not a fan. Monetization and tipping are the opposite I want from mastodon
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@Edent I think we a standard for this across the whole Fediverse. I need it for Manyfold, and Bandcamp, Castopod and many more would want it too.
@floppy a standard for the button, or a standard payment system, or a standard back-end?
All gets complex quickly!
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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 reminds me of the original goal of https://www.axate.com/ which provided APIs for micro transactions for news sites.
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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.)
unless you have a magic way to bypass any payment processor fees then that proposal goes straight to trash, because with small amounts you just give money to paypal/credit card companies/stripe/whatever payment processor exists
not to mention it would probably be a headache to setup for some admins
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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.)
@Edent Credit card payment facilitated by something as easy as Apple Pay and as trusted as a UK or EU business. I wouldn't want some US bank or business screwing this up.
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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.)
@Edent GNU Taler would be cool!
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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.)
@Edent With minimal effort, eg Google Wallet or via direct payment link / QR code to a UK/EU bank.
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@floppy a standard for the button, or a standard payment system, or a standard back-end?
All gets complex quickly!
@Edent it’s definitely a complex problem but we need to come up with a way to do it, I think.
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@Edent GNU Taler would be cool!
@jak2k do you use Taler?
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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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@duncanlock I don't know where you are in the world, but in the UK and Europe it is free to transfer a single penny to any account.
I use tap-to-pay on low value transactions all the time. I even bought a single apple from a greengrocer once!
@Edent @duncanlock Pretty sure there would be a merchant fee and the shop just ate it
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@Edent @duncanlock Pretty sure there would be a merchant fee and the shop just ate it
@davidgerard @Edent @duncanlock yes. Using cards (even non-credit cards) costs the seller money.
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@davidgerard @Edent @duncanlock yes. Using cards (even non-credit cards) costs the seller money.
@davidgerard @duncanlock @tante
Not really. In the UK, I pay a fixed % for tap-to-pay card transactions.SumUp charge as little as 0.99% whether you're charging £1 or £500. My corner shop prefers that I pay by card for a chocolate bar rather than a £20 note.
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@Edent @duncanlock Pretty sure there would be a merchant fee and the shop just ate it
@davidgerard @Edent @duncanlock Yes, the shop will have paid the transaction fee for this and it will have been a fairly large proportion of the payment.
Not as large in the UK as in the USA, but still a flat fee per transaction plus a percentage of the payment amount.
The payment providers that offer simple percentage pricing (eg. Square at 1.75% and SumUp at 1.69%) are able to do so because they insist on a minimum transaction amount of £1.
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@davidgerard @duncanlock @tante
Not really. In the UK, I pay a fixed % for tap-to-pay card transactions.SumUp charge as little as 0.99% whether you're charging £1 or £500. My corner shop prefers that I pay by card for a chocolate bar rather than a £20 note.
@Edent @davidgerard @duncanlock @tante SumUp's minimum payment amount in the UK is £1.
Their fees are rounded to a whole number of pennies per transaction using Banker's rounding (Round Half to Even).
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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.)
@Edent Monzo are not bad for this.
e.g. https://pay.revk.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.)
@Edent the internet would be a very different place if we could replace ads with micropayments
