Hey, everyone. Thanks for the replies. I originally had posted a jokey poll about the Chorus group, which paid some online influencers to post without disclosure:
Then I realized that I post in my work capacity both at the Open Earth Foundation and at the Social Web Foundation. So, I'm kind of getting paid to post.
I thought it might be interesting to see which other people are using the Fediverse as part of a creator job, or posting about their work to raise funds, or doing posting for work like me, or getting paid directly for making content.
Anyway, I'm Yes, But. Yes, but that's only part of what I post.
This poll also reminded me of a service from the early 2010s called SponsoredTweets.com. You could log in with your Twitter account (X used to be called Twitter) and it would offer you sponsored messages you could tweet out or retweet and get some money. I think when I used it I made like $0.50 per Tweet.
When Twitter decided on an advertising business model, they changed their developer TOS to disallow advertising clients, so sponsoredtweets.com shut down. But there's no single entity that can change the TOS for the Fediverse, so this kind of business would totally work here. Steal this idea!
This reminds me of years ago, @evan posted to status.net (paraphrased): “Hey, everybody, you do realize that our plan to fund each other on a crowd-funding sites for all our work is actually *not* going to work, right?”.
In seriousness, It's fascinating that the key code that $DJT/TMTG added to Mastodon was a standard ad platform.
But I really don't think we need more “Influencers” though, do you?
The fediverse *does not* need a GRWM video of me shaving my head — sponsored by $RAZOR_BRAND!
One thing that's hard to explain about this period in the evolution of social networks was how generative the platforms were. People built all kinds of interesting things on top of the Facebook Platform or the Twitter API.
Those businesses were slowly (sometimes quickly) strangled as the platforms pivoted to advertising models and needed to eliminate rivals or assert more control of the client experience.
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •Next poll idea:
Are you only posting on the Fedi as a form of entrapment?
Evan Prodromou
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •Hey, everyone. Thanks for the replies. I originally had posted a jokey poll about the Chorus group, which paid some online influencers to post without disclosure:
wired.com/story/dark-money-gro…
Evan Prodromou
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •Then I realized that I post in my work capacity both at the Open Earth Foundation and at the Social Web Foundation. So, I'm kind of getting paid to post.
I thought it might be interesting to see which other people are using the Fediverse as part of a creator job, or posting about their work to raise funds, or doing posting for work like me, or getting paid directly for making content.
Anyway, I'm Yes, But. Yes, but that's only part of what I post.
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Evan Prodromou
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •It's interesting to see how few people responded yes. I wonder how many people whose jobs bring them to the Fediverse said No.
Anyway, thanks all for the responses.
Evan Prodromou
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Evan Prodromou
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Bradley Kuhn
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •This reminds me of years ago, @evan posted to status.net (paraphrased): “Hey, everybody, you do realize that our plan to fund each other on a crowd-funding sites for all our work is actually *not* going to work, right?”.
In seriousness, It's fascinating that the key code that $DJT/TMTG added to Mastodon was a standard ad platform.
But I really don't think we need more “Influencers” though, do you?
The fediverse *does not* need a GRWM video of me shaving my head — sponsored by $RAZOR_BRAND!
Evan Prodromou
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •web.archive.org/web/2009081303…
One thing that's hard to explain about this period in the evolution of social networks was how generative the platforms were. People built all kinds of interesting things on top of the Facebook Platform or the Twitter API.
Those businesses were slowly (sometimes quickly) strangled as the platforms pivoted to advertising models and needed to eliminate rivals or assert more control of the client experience.
Twitter Advertising : Sponsored Tweets
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