To me, it's only partially about the monetization itself in terms of being able to accept payment - it's more about having easy ways to say "This is specifically for my people" And being able to set how that's defined/redeemed - it could be active subscriptions, NFT ownership, staked tokens, etc...
The public/open nature of Hive right now makes it hard to truly gate content - I think we need some sort of encryption to help with that (I'm no dev, so I don't know how that's achieved)
Honestly, some of what I heard on the recent episode of cryptomaniancs (Common - just change it to Hivemaniacs already ;) from @starkerz might be exactly what I'm describing, or at least the foundations for it.
If influencers can bring their community to Hive as a swap for Patreon, there's a ton of benefits - we're just missing a few features that prevent that from making sense.
yup this is exactly where we are heading. as far as i know, the only problem with paywalls, is that it limits the places the content can be stored, so its less decentralised. however, if we can get this to a place where you need a creator NFT attached to your account in order to view content, even if that content is stored in multiple places off chain, that would be incredible.
I love this idea so much. :)
I think I heard with IPFS and Filecoin at least, people could be storing pieces of files they aren't specifically aware they're storing (meaning the specific file) - I wonder if something like this could be leveraged in the SPK network way?
Members of a community can store community assets even if they don't have access to them to view yet... may even be a way to earn access to view etc...
certainly something to be looked into