Re:Thinking About Decentralized Communities
by SubGenius on Sunday December 13, 2020 @06:07PM
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It would be up to each instance to figure out how they want to monetize their community, or if they even want to.
If there's more censorship at the payment layer, I don't see how crypto will be left alone.
Re:Thinking About Decentralized Communities
by amadeuspagel on Sunday December 13, 2020 @05:51PM
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I'm not the author, but I guess everyone who runs an instance can monetize it their way, just like email providers - some use ads, some charge money, etc.
Re:Thinking About Decentralized Communities
by _peeley on Sunday December 13, 2020 @07:17PM
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I'd also like to know the reasoning behind this. It seems like every reason behind supporting decentralized communities would lend one to also support decentralized financial infrastructure like cryptocurrencies. Also strange that one would be specifically opposed to cryptocurrencies, as any criticism of crypto (abuse, kind of communities it attracts, etc) applies just as much to decentralized software in general.
Care to elaborate on that statement?
If you ever hope to monetize your decentralized community, how do you hope to do that without crypto? Accept PayPal? Rely on Google for advertising revenue sharing? With the increasing willingness to enforce censorship at the payment layer, it's very dubious to create a "decentralized" community without that key piece being also decentralized.