Is activitypub and the fediverse we know today slowly dying?
It seems more people are losing interest, instance are shutting down and more accounts are abandoned.
Thoughts?
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@okpierre I know some won't agree, but I think the Fedi needs more monetization. I'm not talking VC funding or anything, but just creative ways for projects to monetize so that they can be sustained. So that developers and maintainers can develop expertise in the technology, and do this as more than a hobby. I mean nothing wrong with people contributing as a hobby. But being able to dedicate more time would allow more great things to be created in the Fediverse.
@mpanhans @okpierre I would love to see the fediverse adopt the proposed W3 standard Web Monetization.
Associate a payment pointer with each post. Fediverse clients select the payment pointer of the most focused on post to get paid for the time it is in focus or use the iframe method for multiple concurrent payments.
https://webmonetization.org/docs
Seems like a good candidate for a grant from https://www.grantfortheweb.org/
@jeremiahlee @okpierre brilliant, I would love to see this as well