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   Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 00:53:33 JST Richard MacManus

   Over 2006, I ramp up Read/WriteWeb's advertising business, by first partnering with John Battelle's FM Publishing and then copying TechCrunch's sidebar ad format. #internethistory #web20 https://www.cybercultural.com/p/014-the-sponsor-ads-era-2006

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 00:53:32 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @ricmac would you consider a fediverse-enabled platform?

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     Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 00:53:33 JST Richard MacManus

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     p.s. I *will* be moving off Substack in the new year, but I am still evaluating alternatives. I had pre-prepared a few posts before Christmas (and before the Substack controversy began) and this is one of them. Thank you for your patience. #IndiePublisher

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     Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 03:30:43 JST Richard MacManus

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan absolutely, do you have a recommendation?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 03:30:43 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @ricmac I don't, actually. I mostly wanted to get your take on it!

     The best I can imagine is using something like https://write.as/ or https://wordpress.com/ with the ActivityPub extension, and making followers-only posts.

     You could have follower approval on, and have a mechanism like a Patreon, Ko-Fi, or Paypal to let people subscribe. With existing technology, I think you'd have to collate these by hand -- asking the subscriber to include their fediverse handle in comments.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 03:32:00 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @ricmac However, as far as I know right now it's not possible to make followers-only posts from https://write.as/ or WordPress. @pfefferle is that on the roadmap?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 03:34:34 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @ricmac @pfefferle At the protocol level, we could probably figure out a flow to make it possible to include the payment receipt in the Follow request, so it could be automated.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 03:36:16 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @ricmac @pfefferle I think the big advantage, for me, would be having a way for content producers to move between platforms seamlessly without losing their subscriber base. Right now, I think a lot of creators feel locked in at Substack, and it would be nice to have at least a slightly better option for them.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 03:43:15 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @danhon @ricmac @pfefferle oh, cool!

     Honestly, email is a pretty federated system to begin with. So, if you can take the email addresses and subscription data when you walk, you're doing pretty well.

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     Dan Hon (danhon@dan.mastohon.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 03:43:17 JST Dan Hon

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     @evan @ricmac @pfefferle have you seen how people *have* been migrating off Substack? Iirc Buttondown only needed some (one?) thing from the Stripe integration, all the billing & products are handled on the stripe end.

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 04:02:06 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @ricmac not yet, but feel free to add it on the timeline https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/issues/new/choose ☺️