Integrating bitcoin wallets with profiles, enabling "likes" to (optionally) reward posters for good content with BTC micropayments
Hey guys, newbie on Loomio but #oldhere on Diaspora. I've been on Steemit for a few days now and have absolutely fallen for the concept of "likes" being turned into micropayments to support creators/curators of good content. I know there's at least two more networks moving in this direction being released soon (Yours/DATT and Synereo) and I feel this feature's going to be huge in the social netowrking world soon and so I'm wondering... can we get that happening here? We have the user base to actually use it (unlike the other networks), and it would even facilitate donations to pods and podmins and to loads of other causes I haven't even thought of yet.
Discussion started here with @comradesenya, @herzmeister, and a few others: https://diasp.org/posts/5988024. What do you guys think?
Ivor Stodolsky Mon 12 Sep 2016 2:32PM
As said back at the beginning of this discussion, if any sort of currency should be used, it should support ethical and alternative social projects. Presumably most people are on Diaspora for just this reason - to get away from mega-corporations and their commercialization of our lives. There are such projects using alternative currencies, most prominent among them being CIC (http://cooperativa.cat/en/) and FairCoop (https://fair.coop/), which even has a donations button ready (here ours, for example: http://www.perpetualmobile.org/about/faircoin-donations/?lang=en). BTW FairCoins can be converted into any major currency.
c_prompt Tue 13 Sep 2016 3:02AM
valME.io approaches the problem slightly different but pays out in Bitcoin. If you're looking for functionality to replicate, as I wrote to reddit's CEO, I encourage you to look at it.
zulu Wed 28 Sep 2016 6:47AM
Thanks for the discussion, guys. I'm closing this issue, now doesn't seem the right time for it. I know payment integration is the natural next step in social networking, but I also appreciate the special vibe Diaspora's developed in being this quiet, reflective, noncompetitive space that it is.
I hope to see further developments on this front, but am leaving it be for now.
Daniel Smith Mon 3 Oct 2016 10:03AM
That's a necessary
IVXCVI Mon 3 Oct 2016 6:39PM
For one way of doing this without explicitly adding the feature to Diaspora, see https://protip.is
Chris · Sun 11 Sep 2016 3:30PM
Sometimes I want to donate monetarily to someone for an awesome post, or for some other reason. So I don't want to stomp on this idea too hard. Perhaps if there were a field in the bio for donation addresses, just to let people know at account creation that it's OK to do that?
Riseup.net ( [email protected] ) immediately comes to mind. They are suffering pretty badly right now due to some hardware failures. While not active on Diaspora*, they do have an account. If they saw that Diaspora* could be a path to get people to donate, they might be more active, and people might donate to them more.