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
    242·
    6 days 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/

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
    221·
    6 days 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.

  • __init__@programming.devEnglish
    152·
    6 days ago

    Having to sign up to yet another platform to support someone’s work can introduce a lot of unnecessary friction

    To solve this, here’s yet another platform

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      132·
      6 days ago

      The difference here is that you literally sign in with your existing Fediverse identity.

  • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    116·
    6 days ago

    Politely: fuck no

    Donations? Sure, but there already is stuff that does exactly that.

    Subscription for microblogging? Absolutely no, especially not with a centralized, proprietary platform. Don’t start making mastodon twitter. Build your own platform or make your own instances if you have to, but don’t plug into instances without asking and if you ask pay them for the infrastructure they are providing for you service.