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@Edent I think it's a really interesting idea, but my initial feeling is that charges will make it unworkable.

Also I'm pretty sure many similar ideas have failed before, has there been a recent development that makes this more likely to succeed now?

@Edent the internet would be a very different place if we could replace ads with micropayments

@Edent reminds me of the original goal of https://www.axate.com/ which provided APIs for micro transactions for news sites.

@Edent I would like this as a feature, but I wouldnt like to see it as prominently as that. Maybe by clicking on someone's profile.

@Edent I would be very strongly against that. Incentivising people to make particularly notable posts will encourage all sorts of bad actors to post inflammatory and untrue rubbish.

@Edent I think we a standard for this across the whole Fediverse. I need it for Manyfold, and Bandcamp, Castopod and many more would want it too.

@Edent My concern is how involving payment processors would entail new levels of regulation and oversight, and in turn how that might decrease privacy and contribute to censorship and deplatforming.

These are nebulous gut concerns. The devil would lie in the details.

@Edent Really depends on the payment provider. If only we already had #gnutaler aka the global payment system that we were denied.