The problem which has failed to be solved, is how to assign value to the content you view online
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Monday, January 13, 2020
up to some daily/weekly/monthly value
yeah
I liked the initial idea of flattr, when it was launched 10 years ago
wasn't fully fleshed out, didn't catch on
but as someone who will pay people for shit, I feel like Patreon is the worst way for me to go about that
and one-off donations don't really work either
I think once a year
all content creators must fight each other physically in a battle royale fashion to decide their take of the total donation pool
it's going to happen though Pika, and you know it
I would be fine with this
once ad revenue bottoms out
and sponorship deals dry up, or are no longer available to the little guy
All that will be left is to fight over a finite pool of donations from gullible idiots
rob truly is a genious. He threw away his own donation pool so that he can go manage everyone else and take 0.1% of their pools, totaling with him making the most money
really a mind beyond comprehension
Vinny, I'm curious what you think
I watch a lot of shit on YouTube
I don't necessarily believe people deserve to be compensated for it
But in the same vein, there are people who I would want to financially reward for doing whatever, sometimes
People like jerma should just be given a blank cheque at this point
If it's their full time thing I can understand why they feel the need to be compensated, however, it's youtube's obligation to pay them based on ad revenue, not the viewer's job by some imaginary metric. That said, if people want to reward people they enjoy watching, and enough people request it if it doesn't already exist, there should be some agreed upon method of the viewers supporting said content creator
I don't watch ads, I don't believe in ads, I believe in the next decade ads will substantially disapear (in the way that we know them)
I would like; at the YouTube level for example, them to implement a system that allows me to set a monthly amount (say $10)
And allow me to star individual videos as well as whole channels to receive a share of that amount
If I want to be choosy, and only star a couple videos and a few channels each gets a bigger slice
if I want to treat it like 'likes' and I star fucking everything I watch, they I'm free to use it in that way as well
flawed system, could be improved
I know
I just hate one-off donations, because they aren't tied to anything in particular, and Patreon rewards people for future work, or regardless of the quality of what they put out
I want a way to tie a financial incentive, to doing good work
And I get, the real money is in whale chasing
offering perks for private chats or whatever on Patreon
Most are, and the ones that charge you by video might as well be monthly
rob took 2 breaks in 12 years
if that is not a workaholic I do not know what is
SummoningSalt is a good example, I don't want to pay the guy monthly, or per-video or whatever
but I've watched a few videos of his that I liked
I'd like to be able to financially reward him
without forcing him to whore himself out on Patreon
I want him to keep making videos, and I think it would be healthy to monetarilly reward him for past good videos
"disabling adblock" is a joke, but it gets to the right spirit
Some of the time, I want people to earn money from what they're doing
I don't want to pretend to be the arbitrator of what should/shouldn't get made
but I want to reward people for making shit I like
and not 0.00000001 cents that ads pay
look, sometimes you just need to be professional
and you need help to write
I love when people sell subscription services to projects available for free on Github
now spooky
I want you to buy a subscription to a project of mine
its called python 3.0
Kappa
Spooky, the Phijkchu angel investor
lol
When you incentivize him to with good videos
did you not listen to his rant
I watch rob from time to time
that is not a metric
Vinny, set up an open collective page
that's where I donate most of my money
vinny set up a newproject2 page so you can make 0 dollars in multiple places