Nostr

Fediverse people were betting on the wrong horse again: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/16/24322574/sub-club-mastodon-mammoth-fediverse-shutting-down

* Centralized payments for a "decentralized" network

* 150(!) creators is almost nothing, seems like there's too much complexity to get onboarded

* No micropayments & a subscription model instead

* No need for investors if you can pull of p2p microtransactions instead of relying on centralization

* Will probably count as in-app purchases, so 30% are gone already

* sub.club sounds more like a kink-friendly BDSM group than a payment service

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

HERMETICVM 1y ago

I'm not even mocking them. I was among them for quite a few years until I finally couldn't ignore the fact that nothing they're trying really makes that much sense.

I was close to launching a platform to host multiple Fediverse apps on robust infrastructure but it got too obvious to me that the Fediverse isn't censorship proof and that it's quite easy to lose your account or get your instance defederated if you don't play along with the latest trend of suppressing critical thought.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 1y ago

It's nice to know "one of them" was able to wake up and make good posts on nostr 🤙