[moring]

> these FAANGs should set up some way for folks to make money through curation of their content (patented, TM, etc)

Not sure what you mean by "patented, TM, etc". Other than that, I think this should already be possible from the outside e.g. by setting up a Patreon whose sole point is to provide a curated list of content from other platforms such as YouTube or Facebook, and already has a payment mechanism.

This hinges on the fact that content can be linked from the outside, but any approach will be subject to the mercy of the big platforms that host the actual content.

[throwaway201606]

The "patented, TM, etc" was just a joke claiming credit for the whole thing to support the "pay me" joke in the next line. It is a completely content-free line.

The idea of doing a Patreon is interesting.

The real problem is that from a technology support perspective, this is not a real tech business, it is just a feature on any of the platforms. The moment they implement some type of "Magazines" on YouTube / Facebook / Tiktok, you gotta move from Patreon to their platform because of discovery.

The product is not the tech, it is the skill in curation.

As a curator, i could care less what the platform is as long as someone pays me as much as I can get out of the system. Happy to run it on multiple platforms, on email .. whatever mix pays me the most. But I realize right up front that I will have to be paid on the platform the content is on because that is where it will be easiest to get new sign ups.

[throwaway201606]

On second thoughts, @moring, you are definitely on to something here!

It may be a product if one can find a way to effectively integrate content from across different platforms. Which means it has to be off any of the platforms.

Like, maybe, curated paid for lists of selected content via RSS, for my beloved, now dead but not forgotten, Google Reader

There is definitely something here.