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Do people have to make a living of it?
Can't we have a place online where out data isn't being sold, aren't being bombarded with ads, or begged for subscriptions?
Only when people can afford to have a hobby.
Or post revolution.
People make a living online everyday through TikTok, YouTube & even Instagram.
If the Fediverse wishes to make not only a space but a better place for those who use it for personal use but also those creating great content, then we need a way for them to earn money well not taking away the great benefits of no ads on the Fediverse.
Ok, but
I saw this reply in real time without refreshing, amazing.
So with things like @loops on the way, do you think people who will move across to the Fediverse for an alternative if TikTok gets banned should earn there living?
The Fediverse makes sense to me for mass eyes on areas, having your data not sold and stuff, but why can't people earn a living on it like the other parts of the Internet?
Nothing wrong with people making money online with content. It's just why not have a space where people can't?
I was more asking of the things that may replace platforms like TikTok connected to the Fediverse in the future suck as @loops
I understand not earning money from Mastodon or Lemmy, Just like the Video side of the Fediverse needs a way to earn money without the normal ways.
Why do we need replace other platforms? Why not just compete with them, they get the users that want to make money and be internet famous with the mindless zombies that follow it. And we get to have our own sites with a different user base.
Because some of the big users on those sorts of platforms have really good content that can be helpful and annoying to login to a tracking monster platform like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or any other main stream social media.
If some dev wants to make a monetized platform that uses activitypub, they can, and they can do it literally however they want whenever they want. I’m sure threads is or will be monetized in some way.
Literally nothing is stopping anyone from doing that.
But most current users probably wouldn’t migrate to a monetized platform, or even really want to interact with one, and new ones who do want to monetize probably won’t even move until a critical mass of people moves from the old platform(s). So there’s no incentive to create that at this point. And when the critical mass who wants to make money moves, they can figure out how they want to monetize their own platform.
Those three platforms are now the fucking cancer of the internet
I will give your tiny tiny "influencer"-type brain seven minutes to figure out why that is
Hint - it's directly relevant to your question
So you are willing to let thousands of people lose their job entertaining people... Kind of sucks for a video editor like myself as well as many other people that kind of require the online landscape to survive by allowing people that may not be able to work a normal job to create a living online.
Who's being forced to leave their place of income again?
Creators on TikTok in America, if they pass the bill to ban TikTok. What looks likely.
@loops is trying to be some sort of 30 second fediverse alternative.
We can, and we do have some such spaces, thankfully. Another question to ask then is, could online workers have the sort of spaces where they're not ceding their data to be sold by others, where they aren't at the whims of corporate platforms wary of losing advertisers' money, and being given scraps of the advertising money and pressed to split their subscription revenue with corporations making billions?
If people don't want them in the fediverse, and people are sick of the corporate web (either in part or in whole because of online workers there), where are online workers to try to make their living?
I don't know, but I do understand the exasperation at it all.