📢 New blog post! Using the Web Monetization API for fun 🤩
and profit 🤑:

🔗 https://blog.tomayac.com/2025/11/07/using-the-web-monetization-api-for-fun-and-profit/

Learn how I use the proposed #WebMonetization standard by the @Interledger Foundation on my blog to (hopefully) pay for my virtual private server! The whole secret is this tag:

```html
<link rel="monetization" href="https://ilp.gatehub.net/348218105/eur" />
```

📢 New blog post! Using the Web Monetization API for fun 🤩
and profit 🤑:

🔗 https://blog.tomayac.com/2025/11/07/using-the-web-monetization-api-for-fun-and-profit/

Learn how I use the proposed #WebMonetization standard by the @Interledger Foundation on my blog to (hopefully) pay for my virtual private server! The whole secret is this tag:

```html
<link rel="monetization" href="https://ilp.gatehub.net/348218105/eur" />
```

@ricmac

the incentives are to create content for big tech platforms. to work for them. to get promoted by their algos and paid by them. we have a fedi coming together re an fair playing field for discovery, but we all need to come together to make #WebMonetization happen too. #PublicPatron

Holy shit you guys!

Someone at Meta remembered that #OpenGraphProtocol exists.

An update was made in June - https://github.com/facebook/open-graph-protocol/commits/master/

Which adds Payment link metadata - https://ogp.me/#type_payment

Nothing about #WebMonetization, sadly, but good to know the project isn't completely abandoned.

Holy shit you guys!

Someone at Meta remembered that #OpenGraphProtocol exists.

An update was made in June - https://github.com/facebook/open-graph-protocol/commits/master/

Which adds Payment link metadata - https://ogp.me/#type_payment

Nothing about #WebMonetization, sadly, but good to know the project isn't completely abandoned.

@wjmaggos was going to boost that till I read the #WebMonetization hashtag, need some clarification on that bit :)

Most of the money that gets donated to political campaigns, gets spent on advertising. Getting people off media distribution systems with ads and instead funding the work directly, would do so much to fix our political process.

It's a huge part of why I want the #SocialWeb and #WebMonetization to win.

#DemocracyOfReach #PublicPatron

giving $1/month via Patreon. I really think that if everybody could work together to make #WebMonetization (an open fiat transfer protocol) happen, it would help the entire fedi. we are the people who really don't want a middleman.

I think fedi isn't averse to money, but we want a way to automatically give directly and regularly, not see ads or paywalls. to be able to build apps that support media creators based on time played etc. for it all to feel more organic.

making transferring fiat work like the fedi. if there was a widely adopted protocol/API for bank to bank transfers, so much more would be possible. an automatic $1/month to service providers and developers, visible where we already pay our bills. maybe a "pay per time spent on media" donation system. it would also demonstrate to many more people what we mean by federating and the problems it can solve (no crypto necessary).

#WebMonetization