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by Agenttin
1802 days ago
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I think people have shown to be willing to give direct payment. Twitch subscriptions, Patreon, Kickstarter, even OnlyFans. People will invest in the people and the projects they like. I don't want anything that's advertising supported. Anything. There is no media I want to consume so badly that I'll tolerate ads to watch it. There's no product so interesting I'll view ads to use it. No website contains information I need that badly. People keep saying that without ads we'll have to pay for things. Fine. Sure. Set up a Patreon. I give money on Github to a few projects I rely on to make sure their maintainers don't get day jobs. I couldn't afford to pay a programmer's salary, but I can afford to pay a small percentage of one. I think the problem has actually been the donation button itself. You want $1 a month out of me that's a pretty easy sell. You want me to sign up for your website and give you my credit card information and you're SOL. I tried to donate to VoiceMeeter a few months back because it's so good. They only accept $20 donations, no more no less, and their payment system wasn't working. Just, like, get a Venmo. |
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Something that I can put money into, set rules for, and over a period of time dispense cents/fractions of a bitcoin/whatever as per rules.
The rules - and default rules in particular! - would be important.
Maybe you like the author so much you donate on the regular just anyway.
Maybe a plugin in my browser can see when I visit a site and automatically donate. If I don't visit the site, it doesn't pay.
Maybe you donate 0.1 of a cent to ANY website that has no ads or doesn't trigger your adblocker. $1 buys you 1000 such visits.
Then a RSS-like "Donation" button would be meaningful for longer term income, without all the hassle of Patreon etc.
OTOH, I worry that sites would then start watching such transactions and try setting floor limits for how much you need to donate before they serve you.
Any ruleset will inspire gaming that ruleset.