I tried Tumblr’s tipping feature to document the experience before it gets removed.
• Low usage: took ~20 minutes to find a creator with it enabled
• On iOS, payment did not use Apple Pay. I had to type my name, postal code, credit card number, expiration, verification code.
• When trying to send a second tip, it remembered my name, currency, postal code, but not my credit card details.
• Prices in USD even tho I set SEK as currency
• Smallest tip option $1.99
"Websites utilizing Web Monetization can grant immediate access to premium content when a user agrees to the terms without requiring upfront payment. After viewing a paid video, the browser automatically processes a micropayment transaction without interrupting the user’s experience."
Are you interested in the journey to bring #WebMonetization back? Join this week's community call for all the latest updates! We'll also be joined by Andrew Mangle who will share more about the Bowie State Microinternship program and how you can benefit.
On my way back to Stockholm. The last week collaborating with the #WebMonetization working group in Cape Town was productive. Much constructive conflict and general alignment on the spec, implementations, roadmap, and strategy. Expect many of the participants to share their thoughts soon, including me. We’re going to need to hear from people like you to make micropayments a standard feature of the Web platform. But I’m going to need a few days to recover first!
Can someone explain to me how #WebMonetization is different from cryptocurrencies, if at all? It's kinda strange how most of fedi is anti-crypto and then Web Monetization doesn't seem to have anyone batting an eye over it.
Cramming the state of the creator economy, the digital displacement in social platforms in the last year, the long sad history of micropayments failing, and how the Web Monetization W3C Web Platform Incubator Community Group will make them viable into 15 minutes might set a new slide-per-minute personal record for me.
I’m on track for 1 slide per 15 seconds which makes my ADHD brain very happy.
I will be attending @fediforum today and tomorrow if anyone wants to chat about my work bringing support for WebMonetization.org to the social Web or @Interledger in general.
The previous @fediforum unconference in March resulted in new connections, refined ideas, and more collaboration among fediverse users, operators, and developers.
I am looking forward to the next event on September 20–21. I hope to get feedback on my progress building Open Payments and Web Monetization support into the social Web.
Here is my mid-grant progress report for adding Web Monetization support to the fediverse. Working with @Interledger has been an incredible experience.
As a content creator, I’m all for getting more money, but forcing users to watch ads isn’t the way to do it… I think YouTube would lose a lot of viewers if they enforced this on everyone, and creators would suffer as a result.
Here's an interview with Stefan Thomas, CEO of Coil, that goes into some technical details on how the design for the InterLedger Protocols (ILP) led to Web Monetization as a proposed web standard: