After years of hyperventilation about TikTok’s impact on privacy, propaganda, and national security, TikTok is likely being sold to a bunch of Trump’s billionaire technofascist buddies …
Fediverse is great but if its not going to pay “content creators” a large number of people won’t move to it. Those with the highest engagement generally expect to get paid now and for some of them its their livelihood.
There is things like Patreon, and others like that. Perhaps some kind of addition to the app that makes it easy for advertisers to find you, and you get the added option on blocking advertisers who you don’t agree with or something? That could actually mean cutting out the middle man and making better profits, or if using a middleman there could be several advert companies you can patch into your vids.
Just thinking out loud. There should be a model to make it work and far better than it does now.
Fediverse is great but if its not going to pay “content creators” a large number of people won’t move to it. Those with the highest engagement generally expect to get paid now and for some of them its their livelihood.
There is things like Patreon, and others like that. Perhaps some kind of addition to the app that makes it easy for advertisers to find you, and you get the added option on blocking advertisers who you don’t agree with or something? That could actually mean cutting out the middle man and making better profits, or if using a middleman there could be several advert companies you can patch into your vids.
Just thinking out loud. There should be a model to make it work and far better than it does now.