Comment on The fediverse is a small world
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
One thing right away would be brave basic attention tokens, as well as setting up a subscribestar and liberapay.
Say what you will about reddit, the concept of reddit gold makes them a lot of money every day, and I'm sure once the platform reaches a critical mass then something like that could be used to both incentivise the platform and the posters.
Federation sort of poses a problem -- if you set up wolfballs gold it isn't gonna show up on fbxl lotide or fbxl social or poast unless it's a system that tries to DM someone who got the gold with instructions on redeeming gold benefits independent of the website, unless you just say "sorry, thanks for the great post but unless you're a wolfballs member you just get a nifty star on our website" which admittedly would invlcentivise joining the instance.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I do have cyrpto donate links in the heart icon on wolfballs. I don't advertise it because I don't need any money for this. It's still cheap.
We could fork our own crypto as a way to implement this. That way anyone could use the coin in their instance however they want.
Would need to think about that. I have thought it would be funny to make a coin called like wolfturd. You know because it would be our own custom shit coin.
lorenzoT@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I like this idea
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
Lol I like that -- wolfturd the shitcoin. Once the everything bubble bursts there'll have to be a pathway from the coin to something worth having, since I expect most cryptos to collapse during that process.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I wouldn't expect the coin to be worth actual currency. Just be able to exchange it for some site feature that isn't important.