Our "paying for media" system is broken because it doesn't keep up with what is recommended to us via social media.
You can pay a lot of money for lots of services and still not be able to check out the cool new thing all your friends are suddenly talking about. Or still have to sit through ads […]
Decentralize it. We're getting there. The details are:
Servers and apps for reading, watching and listening that require no middleman. See #ghost #wordpress @wallabag #peertube #owncast #podcasting
The social news feed that lets important news and ideas go […]
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@donmoyn.bsky.social
but we're citizens who want the best info and arguments to get to the most people so that our democracy can thrive. we need the nice billionaires to help build that ecosystem, not another outlet they can get bored with or decide isn't worth the time/money. that they have […]
before the repeal of funding by #MAGA, the US was only giving about $2/person annually. while the UK was giving about $100/person annually.
in general, I don't like government doing it but I do think money needs to be allocated in such a way that keeps our media from being so subservient to the […]
media decentralization is job one in the fight for a workable democracy/economy.
every outlet should be essentially an equal node on a flat network. attention only allocated by social media boosts by humans. money allocated from each of us based on how much we can donate and then divided by the […]
imo it just seems so obvious/inevitable, in a world fully online.
If you're a creator, your work should live on your website but be universally accessible. If we spend time with it, you should get paid a portion of the money we can afford to allocate to digital media for the month, based on our […]
Great episode with @rabble and @mallory. In this new age of our government going after even big media creators, we need to reach out to them to help fund #SocialWeb decentralized distribution (that thus nobody can squeeze). That will also require a decentralized funding solution like […]
Hello all the people and companies with video content who want to reach an audience but feel stuck making deals with distributors. There are decentralized FOSS alternatives that with your help, we could turn into the universal video distribution technology with zero gatekeepers, like podcasts […]
The mega corps can't figure out a deal for #YouTubeTV to carry #Disney programming. Billionaire middlemen keep fucking around while a new world struggles to be born.
#peertube #PublicPatron
@ricmac
the incentives are to create content for big tech platforms. to work for them. to get promoted by their algos and paid by them. we have a fedi coming together re an fair playing field for discovery, but we all need to come together to also make #WebMonetization happen too. #PublicPatron
@ddayen.bsky.social
imo we need to connect the dissident left and the media decentralization tech movement in order to help fix this.
#DemocracyOfReach #PublicPatron
@hamishcampbell
I think of it as just being able to directly fund creators. No corporate middlemen. Built on an open protocol for bank to bank fiat transfers. An alternative to both crypto and big tech services like PayPal.
ultimately I'd like us to be able to just set a monthly amount in our […]
Most of the money that gets donated to campaigns, gets spent on advertising. Getting people off media distribution systems with ads and instead funding the work directly, would do so much to fix our political process.
It's a huge part of why I want the #SocialWeb and #WebMonetization to win […]
What if you could pay the same for media but have the money only go directly to the creators whose work you spent the most time with? That should be possible with decentralized social media and a protocol for bank to bank fiat transfers.
#SocialWeb #WebMonetization #PublicPatron
@reiver
search, absolutely.
I don't think we need an algo if we have boosts, hashtags and enough users/content.
I agree re monetization but it could work such that we each set up an amount we can afford and it gets allocated after a month based on percentage of time spent with their content […]
#DemocracyOfReach project ideas:
#FediFBNextDoor - comfy communities for newbies
#FediOGTwitter - it's not microblogging, it's a news feed
#FediPodcasts - using AP instead of RSS would enable so much
#FediReader - articles and text to speech
#FediYouTube - places for all peertube + owncast […]
@futurebird @briankrebs
we should rally around a new decentralized media ecosystem. key would be being able to pay all creators directly and automatically for the time we spend with their work as a percentage of all the money we can afford for that per month. I call it #PublicPatron.
it will […]
@mariabustillos.com
I'd rather they make it available from their own site and we all work together to have a system that pays creators for time spent with their work.
#PublicPatron
The argument for all the mergers via Skydance, CBS, WB etc is that media companies can't compete with Netflix and other big tech players. I kinda get that. If some service you're paying for is big enough and then expensive enough, maybe people will think it only makes sense to pay for one. So […]
@karlbode.com
this is worse but they've always served corporate interests. we need to work together to make something like owning a big media company meaningless. a decentralized YouTube where our social graph determines what gets recommended and we can pay creators directly and automatically […]
We know media independence can't be sustained under corporate ownership or advertising. It needs to be directly supported.
But if it's only paid for by its biggest fans, it risks audience capture. That creators will begin to self censor to lock in those supporters specifically.
The money has […]
What would it take to get #cspan on @peertube and @owncast? They are losing their funding because cable is dying.
pca.st/episode/c3117a43-9e47-49...
Imagine #BandcampFriday every day. That we had a decentralized Spotify so that every musician could run their own site (@mirlo / @howdy) and you could use whatever app you want to stream their music from their site, and you decided how much money to set aside per month in your banking app, to […]
We need to make money flow directly to the creators of the content we consume, and that will only happen if we can make that easy and keep it fully in our control. Until this happens, the wealthy will dominate culture, and thus society. Moving from their control over what's on TV to what's in […]
AFAIK local TV news is still profitable. Aren't there like a couple per metro region? Can't we leverage that in order to do more in-depth local coverage? Merge them with the newspapers that are dying. Add on radio stations. Use all the mediums but also make it available online.
Then replace all […]
@Jeremiah @benjaminbellamy @Castopod @Mastodon
very excited about this. it addresses a ton of concerns I've had. but how do we make users comfortable with the amount they are spending and feel like they are in control?
my thought was that you set a monthly amount in your banking app that […]
I had this idea I called #PublicPatron years ago. I think open protocols are getting us closer to making an even better version possible.
Everybody sets up any monthly amount in their banking app. Based on media consumed, it gets divided up and distributed to the creators based on the […]
