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sub.club Emerges to Offer Paid Fediverse Subscriptions (wedistribute.org)
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sub.club is an emergent new platform for paid subscriptions in the #Fediverse. It's simple, smooth, and easy to use.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

@deadsuperhero @fediverse

Why did't you mention Mitra, the open source and fully decentralized Fediverse service that also offers paid subscriptions, and which has been around for several years?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Probably because, to my knowledge:

  1. I didn't know that Mitra did that.
  2. Even though it does have that functionality, I have no idea whether it would work with the rest of the network.
  3. This article was about sub.club

I'm not trying to slight Mitra in any way, shape, or form, but my focus for this article was scoped to one thing in particular.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

@deadsuperhero @fediverse You cite an abandoned project and withdrawn WebMonetization FEP and then say "most efforts have not advanced beyond the planning stages". This statement is misleading because those planning stages are far behind us. Mitra had subscriptions since 2022 and there are other projects that provide monetization options, like PeerTube Lightning plugin and PeerTube Premium Users plugin. FEP-0ea0 and FEP-0837 were published and implemented. Your co-author @quillmatiq should be well aware of these developments because we talked about it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most efforts haven't moved beyond the planning stages. Just because you can point to a plugin or a FEP spec doesn't mean that it's an ongoing active effort for bring a payment layer to the Fediverse, with a consumer-facing tool or platform. I'm sorry if I didn't catch that Mitra had some of that functionality, but I would also push back and say that the average person is not going to use Monero for payments on the Web anytime soon.

Those PeerTube plugins are nice, and the Premium Users one was actually something I pointed @[email protected] to for sub.club, as an example of prior art. They're interesting experiments, possibly useful integrations, but not in and of themselves actual platforms to build infrastructure and solutions on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

@deadsuperhero @fediverse @quillmatiq Protocols described in these FEPs are currency-agnostic and developers can build actual platforms and solutions on them (as I did). This is the only ongoing effort to bring a payment layer to the Fediverse - there are no alternative proposals. FEP-8c3f was withdrawn in favor of FEP-0ea0.

Okay, you didn't know about it. But now you do and it would be nice to include at least some of that information in the article.