I'm mostly with you. I think the gaming example is a bit dubious. Probably the best game released in ages, amongst a whole garbage heap of both paid and free to play, is a paid game - Elden Ring. Free to play is mostly trash, disposable and will have not much of a fond legacy. There are some exceptions obviously.
Just a little aside. I appreciate the argument tho, I'm just not all that onboard with that analogy.
Exactly. Free to play opens the game for many more players but it comes with a heavy cost. All free to play games compensate with ads and/or inapp purchases. Both forcing developers to make at least some design choices which are NOT in the game’s best interest, thus decreasing the quality of the game itself.
That's fine. My point is a general one: there is a better way to monetize than charging $0.02 for a blog post (or participating in the surveillance machinery), we just have to figure it out.
Curious thing about thoughtful content creation is it’s impossible to know if a given piece is worth anything at all so really the author is the buyer and he is buying your trust with content. There is no true price discovery in this space because the media itself is not the product. Trust in the author is the product.
Yes, I totally agree. I think substack is a great example. There's also this curious project by one of the Kickstarter co-founders. Metalabel.com
He seems like an interesting guy, and this is well worth a listen, a lot of what he says would be onboard with what can be built on nostr.
Substack is actually a bad example because it's a subscription freemium model, with set pricing, not V4V.
V4V is just a new way to say "have a tip jar".
No yeah you're totally right. It's more like kofi and buymeacoffee etc, I think I mostly just know of substacks which are free to view.
Community software. micro-apps that are unique to a network/fandom and provide specific function or experience that only the network understands.
Community-specific widgets 🚀
I'm designing for this and I need help in coming up with more examples of widgets that'd be useful for specific communities.
Interesting that you're designing for this, because we're building an entire computing paradigm meant to facilitate this: https://github.com/operating-function/pallas
We should talk 😉
Ooooh 🤩
I'm gonna need some time to grasp this (not a real coder here).
At this time, our GitHub repo and all of our docs are squarely aimed at software developers. We are a little ways off from have a product and written material appropriate for a wider audience, but the ultimate goal is your grandma should be running our software one day :)
To put it simply and overly briefly: open source sovereign personal server software that connects peer to peer with other similar nodes. "new Internet, new FOSS software market" yadda yadda lol
