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@asklemmy How could users Monitise themselves on the Fediverse?

As people possibly move across to the Fediverse to find alternatives, we have to question how people are going to make a living on this amazing platform.

Can it be fully run by donations or is there a better way for people to be paid across the Fediverse?

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[โ€“] anarchost@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As far as I can tell, it was basically intended as a cryptocurrency pushing network from the beginning. Here's some marketing babble right from their site:

Integrated with lightning [cryptocurrency], Nostr enables new value-for-value business models that have the potential to be more fair.

More PR speak about zaps (cryptocurrency exchanges), wallets, etc are all accessible from the official website.

[โ€“] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Ah yeah, my bad, I also see this on another part of the site regarding "zaps":

From the beginning of the Nostr protocol, it was common to see Lightning invoices in notes.

I think I remembered it otherwise by coming at it from the decentralized comms angle instead of the cryptobro angle.