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Web monetization, how do you think it should be done? (burggit.moe)
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Advertisements seemed to be the way until recently, where it doesn't seem like advertising is at all a valid way to make money.

Crypto mining, while good tech, was abused far too much to where any ethical solutions made are just going to be tacked into the same category as the unethical ones.

Subscriptions are popping up a lot more, but I'm not sure that's the best way to do things.

Donations seems like a valid way, but that relies on people actually caring enough to find something.

For the sake of discussion, let's talk about smaller websites/businesses as opposed to huge companies like The Hard R, Amazon, etc…

How do you think the web should be monetized?

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[–] RA2lover@burggit.moe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Advertising is a valid way to make money, it just stopped being a way to make enough money for the typical scenarios (low-effort individual hosting, VC-forced growth).

Compute, storage and bandwidth have all significantly lowered in price over time, but moderation and hosting costs haven't as internet proliferation, legal requirements and media standards kept growing.

There hasn't been much focus in keeping costs low.
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[–] Burger@burggit.moe 1 points 1 year ago

Personally? I don't think there will ever be a way to monetize it without any downsides to whatever funding model you picked.

When I grew up, the web was composed of a lot of passion projects such as fansites, programming blogs, and of course, porn ;) Lots of people hosted these on their little baby home servers. There was a vast diversity of websites that you could find and discover. I'm hoping with big tech cratering due to enshittification, it will go back to that, but I'm not optimistic.