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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 14:12:16 JST Evan Prodromou

   I am strongly positive. I sponsor Patreons and other subscriptions, and I think they're pretty cool. I've supported some Substack authors, but not anymore. I'd like to see this pattern possible on the fediverse.

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     Bruce Elrick (virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 14:30:12 JST Bruce Elrick

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     @evan

     I think there is a strong difference between want to pay and have to pay, especially when I think about how the fediverse would have to be changed to introduce mechanisms to enable this.

     The least objectionable I can think of is a private account (does this already exist) with some out-of-band management to whitelist payers who could then follow.

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     Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 22:54:29 JST Mastodon Migration

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     @evan

     Seems like a really good idea. Strongly positive too.

     To be clear, imagining this would be just as a way to have subscriptions for things like newsletters or video services, as an additional capability. Not assuming it would change anything about the way the free fediverse functions or have to be supported by all instances.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 22:54:29 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @mastodonmigration yeah, that's a much bigger question! I'd be strong no on that.

     But given that paid content exists on the Internet, it would be interesting to see how it could be supported optionally here.

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     bmaxv (bmaxv@noc.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 01:06:08 JST bmaxv

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     @evan I'm open to paying for actually valuable and consistent information.

     But I don't think anyone on the fediverse has ideas or thoughts that are so significantly above average that they are worth paying for.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 01:06:08 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • bmaxv

     @bmaxv present company excepted, of course

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 03:43:30 JST silverpill

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     @evan It is definitely possible, and implemented in my project Mitra. Here, "subscribers" and "followers" are different categories, and subscribers-only posts are published in a private group that uses mentions for targeting and therefore compatible with other popular micro-blogging platforms.

     A variant of FEP-0837 protocol is used for federated payments. People on servers that don't support FEP-0837 can make a payment by navigating to a special payment page.