I’ve been thinking a lot recently about PeerTube, Loops, Bandwagon, and other platforms in the Fediverse that are geared around artists. I might get flamed for this, and you’re welcome to disagree, but I think the network is in dire need of having support for commerce.

Not “Big Capitalism” commerce, but the ability for people to buy and sell things, support projects, and commission their favorite creators to keep making more stuff.

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Part of the headache here is that this situation inherently props up a few monopolistic platforms, rather than allowing people to use whatever payment system is available in their own countries. Some of this can be worked around using cryptocurrencies – famously, the Mitra project leverages Monero for this very purpose, although I'm told it now can accept other forms of payment as well.

Hell yeah, I didn't know about Mitra. It sounds like it's a Patreon esque kind of deal with what the payments part is for.

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Silverpill might not like me making this comparison, but its form and function are shockingly similar to OnlyFans.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Sounds like an additional reason to be doing it in a way where participants can't be debanked by payments middlemen