I'm actually kind of frustrated.
Once more we see a #socialmedia exodus and not a single one of the fun content creators I love from say #Instagram make their way over to #Mastodon, #Pixelfeed or #Loops. Why?
BECAUSE NO DIRECT #MONETIZATION!
Do you understand what weeks or months of labor looks like? If no #ad revenue, if no #superchat, if no #donate button, then why even make the effort?!
The #fediverse needs to grow up and carve out direct paths to monetization.
#Decentralize the bag!
@hopland I hear you. We need alternatives to the commercialised and centralised social media.
If this is going to be mainstream, monetisation is necessary. And even advertising. But it is tricky how to implement this. I found this proposal for doing ads with the ActivityPub. It's two years old and just a few ideas. I don't know if anyone are working on this?
https://github.com/ryanmio/Fediverse-Decentralized-Ads
@Koexel the biggest problem being that we can't guarantee statistics collected that will depict which focus groups that the ads actually reach.
Not only that, but largely people on #WebSocial are largely against #ads and #DataCollection - for good reason.
I have a solution, but it entails another walled garden - or that platforms can guarantee statistics gathering on a contractual basis.
@hopland Absolutely.
The problem is of course with data collection, privacy and trust. Even if we voluntarily sign up for receiving certain ads, we still have to trust the data processor. This is not better on a distributed Fediverse.
I just saw Carole Cadwalladr's scary TED talk today. Feeding all our data into AI's makes all of this multitudes worse.
Again, data could still be sucked out of Fediverse servers and misused elsewhere.
The solution could be to be completely anonymous and only interact with the web through detached Actors, digital Surrogates, like in the Bruce Willis movie?