A new startup in Fediverse space offers a unique way for people to support their favorite creatives and builders on the network.

sub.club is an emergent new platform for paid subscriptions in the #Fediverse. It’s simple, smooth, and easy to use.

  • Blaze@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The overall idea behind sub.club is simple: people can pay a set amount of recurring donations, and gain access to posts from a private ActivityPub account for exclusive content. Creators using sub.club post private DM’s to their sub.club actor, and these messages get relayed into the private feed. Creators display their sub.club account handles in their profile fields, and apps such as Mammoth and Ice Cubes can read that value, and display a special subscription button.

    Okay so it’s Patreon for microblogging. Why not, if there is an audience.

    Thinking about it, a federated OnlyFans could be an interesting concept.

    At first I thought it was paid instances of established platforms, a la https://communick.com/services/lemmy/

  • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    Fuck off.

    Stop monetising everything, let us just enjoy our space without injecting business into it.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Some of the people in the space are tired of panhandling, and would like to actually get paid for things they do. This can include: covering monthly instance costs, selling subscriptions to premium articles for a newspaper, supporting a video creator on PeerTube, or donating to an open source project. A subscription system is one way of doing that.

      • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
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        1 month ago

        And some of the people are tired of capitalism being injected into everything.

        Why can we not just have a space where people can be people without monetising it?

  • rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com
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    1 month ago

    I’m not totally sure of the wisdom involved in gating content when ActivityPub and the Fediverse are still so new and niche.

    If you’re putting out premium content that doesn’t affect the existing communities, whatever, I don’t care. But I do have to wonder how you’re actually going to make money when most users are used to free content.

    Wouldn’t it be easier to use Ko-fi or similar?

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I think paid instances are fine. Provided they actually provide more reliability, etc. although right now, many free instances are reliable enough. And a subscription cost to run your own single or friend group instance probably wouldn’t be much either.

    Although I could see a paid service which runs an instance for you, but you get to use your own domain name and such. Kind of like those Minecraft hosting services. Okay, I’m on another tangent.