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This is what excites me about the proposed W3 Web Monetization standard. I don't want to establish a billing relationship with every creator whose content I val
by jeremiahlee 5y ago
This is what excites me about the proposed W3 Web Monetization standard. I don't want to establish a billing relationship with every creator whose content I value.
Have a wallet that's loaded with value, send out payments for every second you spend with a creator's work.
https://coil.com https://coil.com and https://WebMonetization.org https://WebMonetization.org
- cinntaile 5y agoThe idea is quite old, Flattr has been doing something similar for 11 years now. The UI is a bit less polished though. https://flattr.com/ https://flattr.com/
- sofixa 5y agoThank you! I'm in the same boat and think that it's a great potential way forward, with very little friction - it can work on any random blog without me having to trust them with my payment details. I hope more people pick up on it ( and tried to help with an article that somehow got to #1 on HN, but the comments were mostly negative)
- account42 5y ago> for every second you spend with a creator's work Time spend is a really bad metric since it can easily be gamed. For non-entertainment content time spent could oven correlate negatively with value.
- supert56 5y agoTotally agree with this. We'll just end up with more waffling long form content packed with videos and distractions to encourage users to spend more time trying to find what they were originally looking for.
- BizarroLand 5y agoAnd if you're charged by time spent on a page it makes sense to use a bot to download the pages you want to read and then render them locally. If I'm paying per second I can download something that would take me 5 minutes to read in 5 seconds, saving me 59/60ths of the cost.