What if we had an option to turn link and comment upvotes into micro-donations, even as low as 1 cent, with an option for instance owner to receive a small share to make hosting scalable and sustainable? No middlemen, no data collection, no privacy disclosure, etc. We are all creators here even if we “just” create comments and recommendations. The incentive could make a big difference, attract more users to this great platform and increase its visibility. Details in the link. What do you think?
what do you think of hive and steemit, don’t they do something like this?
I thought I heard of another forum doing this and since money can be made from each post it’s incentivized spamming
The idea is old, true, the implementation is different. Instead of replacing the arbitrage of centralized donation processors with crypto and miners (like in the systems you mention), we rather go without middlemen.
We focus on privacy - I wouldn’t want my micro-donations to political parties and porn sites to go through a central processor or crypto exchange (with KYC) and be eventually leaked.
Spam won’t be an issue for systems requiring registration like Lemmy or for direct end-to-end donations. Yet, you are right, we had to develop anti-spam/fake measures for the general case where users are anonymous and smartlikes are accumulated in charts to boost channel visibility and help users discover new content. These are crowdsourced decentralized moderation - https://blog.smartlike.org/censorship-and-moderation - and an optional type of donation where a % is cut and evenly distributed among all creators…
