Sure, we have open source, federated replacements for Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube. How do we get creators to use this stuff? One consideration involves the ability to pay for things.

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about PeerTube, Loops, Bandwagon, and other platforms in the Fediverse that are geared around artists. I might get flamed for this, and you’re welcome to disagree, but I think the network is in dire need of having support for commerce.

Not “Big Capitalism” commerce, but the ability for people to buy and sell things, support projects, and commission their favorite creators to keep making more stuff.

  • VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    I carefully agree. I don’t think paid advertisment is the solution here though. Regarding PeerTube having unlimited upload capabilities and a prominent “Support us!” button would be enough imho. However, unlimited upload is not feasible for most instances as storage costs are not always covered by instance donations.