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Interesting concept for sure. Is there a revenue model to attract top influencers? Maybe just links to a collection of Patreon-likes?

• jacobobryant 6y ago
  hm, no idea. I haven't thought about revenue models much since I've envisioned this more as a grass-roots thing than a startup opportunity. I think the main thing would be just making it dead easy to get started. You wouldn't necessarily need to jump start a new network since the whole point of this is to be interoperable with existing networks. A good first step might be making a personal site generator. Put in links to your twitter/youtub/substack/medium/whatever accounts, and then you get a nice looking site with all your content in one place. Maybe throw in a subscribe button so people can get email digests of all your content. and then, almost as a side effect, anyone who uses the site generator also is publishing it all as an atom feed.
  • mariushn 6y ago
    How about Facebook, which requires an account to view the person posts? How would those be read? Besides maybe requiring user & password and logging in with a headless browser. Not sure if Instagram/Pinterest require a login too.
    • jacobobryant 6y ago
      Entering in username + password is probably the only feasible way. Suboptimal for sure, but worked for mint... In practice, this would probably start out with plugins for only sites that make data public. Not perfect, but still useful.
• beardedetim 6y ago
  I think the money is in the aggregator. Everyone creates their own “log” so the noise is crazy. You follow “influencers” or go to aggregate sites that only vet info, not produce it. You could have the aggregate behind a paywall, you could have donations or ads as well.
• bluetwo 6y ago
  Web Monetization standard. Yes. https://webmonetization.org https://webmonetization.org