This is an interesting stance. I wouldn't necessarily try to extract an hourly rate from social media, though I suppose that's inherit with any tokenized system (time optimization and what not).
I'm not here for that, I'm more interested in a cohesive community driven social media (Mastodon seems pretty fragmented) that doesn't rely on doomscrolling for profit (see Twitter/Facebook/etc). I can't recall seeing ads on here (Ecency) which is a lot nicer than having some corpo overlord profitize content from users. I plan on building out some more curated posts, but for right now just trying to engage with the platform and get a feel for organic conversations rather than crafting content.
No ads is absolutely the best part of it for me! I hope the people steering the front-ends have things sorted out so ad-free is sustainable in the long term. Few people believe me at first when I talk about a social media platform that can pay you for content that doesn't rely on advertising. It's a truly beautiful thing.
We may see ads in some front ends as they have to cover their costs. Some take a cut of post rewards, but then we can use whichever we prefer.
Exactly!
Completely unrelated but, did you start up that drumming community in the end?
It's here. Not much going on so far. I need to do more drumming posts.
It's a start. I'm excited! Got a few recordings to share. In time...
LeoFinance is using ads and I don't see anyone complaining about it till now .
The recent news shared by the team said they will share it with the community itself ( LeoAds) which is a good news :)
Posted Using LeoFinance Beta
I've not noticed ads lately, but I'm not always on Leo. Any project like this has to pay their bills and needs to find a way to raise funds. I'm not totally against ads, but they should not be intrusive.
That's cool - I haven't tried out LeoFinance yet, but may check that out. Nice thing about them claiming to share the rewards is it should be easy-ish to verify those claims.
Doesn't PeakD have ads?
It has promoted posts, as does Ecency. I wonder if using Brave means I don't see some ads.
I'm sure it was PeakD? I remember people being up in arms about it. Maybe they don't do them anymore?
peakd still has promoted posts on the trending feed. I see 'sponsored' ones in ecency too. Which people were 'up in arms'? Just because one person complains doesn't mean it's a general feeling. The community is diverse.
As you can see it does not guarantee rewards.
An hourly rate is just one way to think about it. I just had people saying it wasn't worth their time, but value comes in many forms. Most successful people worked hard for a long time to get where they are and it was either because they were convinced they had something good or they just enjoyed it.