The only real attempt at monetisation that I’ve seen is https://beetoons.tv/, but they use their own crypto - making it like Odysee. Why is that?

Edit: Please, before you answer consider this monetisation doesn’t mean ads!

    • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
      258·
      1 year ago

      The userbase is still anti-business.

      And a significant part will remain so. This should be a haven from capitalist/corporate platforms, not a parallel market.

      • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zipEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        That’s Western fediverse.

        Fediverse instance in Asia often run ads or other kind of monetisation. Like the second biggest instance.

          • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zipEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Misskey, which is Japanese-made ActivityPub-enabled social media software, has option to enable ads natively for instance admin.

            In most cases, the ads are just non-tracking community ads, like promoting YouTube channel, indie animation, pop-up cafe event, or server hosting service. Usually the ads are matched to instance theme.

            People realize that running instances needs money and letting the instance admin to make living from it is acceptable. Having monthly patron oftentimes not enough.

            This is different case and country. There are plenty of dead fedi instance from Southeast Asia because the donation itself is not enough as the culture of donation is not the same as Western countries. Most people will just simply use free social media and thinking ads are good tradeoff.

      • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        1 year ago

        Unpopular opinion: people who think federated platforms shouldn’t deal with money are just people who want someone else to pay for them.

    • onlinepersona@programming.devOPEnglish
      83·
      1 year ago

      The userbase on the Fediverse is not big enough to support a donation-based economy.

      Could you expand on that? Why do you believe such is the case?

      The userbase is still anti-business.

      I’m starting to get the impression that this is the biggest hindrance. That and the common misconception that “ads = monetisation”, which IMO big tech has hammered into users very well.

      For all its faults, Youtube is hands-down is the platform that pay the most to content creators.

      True, but it doesn’t have to stay that way.

      Content creators are not willing to spend their time building out audiences on new platforms. Principles be damned, they will just go where the money is.

      Probably better tools could contribute to that. Something opensource that allows engaging with all major platforms + peertube and others could swing things in another direction. Imagine if peertube, mastodon, and so forth were just a toggle or a “sign up” form in the app. It could increase adoption by its simplicity: “Never heard of this platform, but I’ll just enable it and see what happens” could very well be possible.

      I’ve added support for crowdfunding to Communick earlier this year

      Wait a minute… I think I recognise that! Didn’t you make a post that was massively downvoted (or received negatively), because people didn’t understand what you were trying to do? “If it’s not steady income I won’t use it” is something I recall…

      Edit: Lemmy is missing the feature to favorite other users :/

      Anti Commercial-AI license