Bluesky wants to make it easier to buy, sell, and fundraise on the network | TechCrunch

The executives argued that advertising isn’t the only path to monetization, and that there are alternative models that are feasible when it comes to monetization.

AtmoPay — payments for the open social web

Set your prices once. AtmoPay publishes them to your own account and settles the money, so every app that reads your profile can sell for you.

App creator pledges against enshittification

While researching business models that could work on atproto there are some obvious ones that won’t work on a technical/architectural level. Like you can’t really monetize the data in the PDS because it’s all completely open (as long as there’s no permissioned data, but probably not even after that). That in itself already takes away a lot of room/incentive for enshittification (which is great), since when you do users can create or move to another app. But still, I kept encountering models/ta...

Project vs. Product, Startup vs. Business

A couple of weeks ago I dropped into a thread by Mosh Lee, about how ATproto has too many projects and too few businesses. Yes! A few months ago I volunteered to help teams with ops or strategy, and k

Let's Talk Money - Interlinked

How we get to 1B Users in the Atmosphere

I wanna make $1million for a thousand indies - Erlend’s notes

or, how to accrue a billion dollars without losing your soul

Eurosky is collaborating with SPRIND to test a non-toxic algorithm for the first time - Eurosky

Eurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure

An equitable company - Roomy

decentralized networking is best realized with decentralized ownership

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The Economics of Sovereign Media: A Roadmap for AT Protocol | ATmosphereConf VODs

The talk will focus on (1) the structural shifts reshaping the media landscape & creator economy and provide a roadmap / suggestions for how the AT Protocol ecosystem & community can be best positioning to serve the needs of creators of all kinds (emphasis / focus here on independent creators) through this evolutio, while preserving their rights to sovereignty & ownership. The talk ideally touches on both cultural, economic and technical / infrastructural topics. Will be speaking in my capacity both as an artist and as an investor / student of media markets.