Interestingly today's Vergecast episode "ActivityPub is the next big thing in social" [1] touched on monetization. What I understood from Mike Cue, the monetiz

Interestingly today's Vergecast episode "ActivityPub is the next big thing in social" [1] touched on monetization. What I understood from Mike Cue, the monetization implementations won't come from Mastodon, but from established companies building new things, like Flipboard or Medium. They are also thinking what needs to be added to protocol to support monetization. IMO it doesn't need any features for monetization. ActivityPub allows creators to create accounts and allow only paid followers, or send their toots to payed subset of followers. Problem is what servers would the masses gather? Who ever is the biggest node will of course set the rules. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/activitypub-is-the-next-big-thing-in-social/id430333725?i=1000610671175 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/activitypub-is-the-nex...