Now that is Interesting.

I had some thoughts about getting public domain short films into the Fediverse but you’d rapidly exhaust the allowance on most instances. However, this might just be the ticket. Time to brush off my Tumblr password…

Maybe PeerTube can already do that, haven’t played with it enough to know.

You’d think Peertube would be able to.

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I feel like this was an inevitability; but with the tariffs and other nonsensical shit that’s negatively impacting the economy, the timeline has been accelerated.

Especially with these “free” comic books as the stores have to buy them and, as their price increases, they will have to weigh up the costs and benefits. Some FCBS weren’t doing this anyway.

There has definitely been an uptick in sign-ups - first around the Inauguration (despite being a UK instance) and then with Reddit’s pornmaggedon. In between it didn’t drop back down to the old rate in between. db0 have seen a.massive spike recently too.

Thanks, we’re in regular contact with lemmy.zip and knew this was happening.

DGR has also posted over on [email protected].

I don’t think this can be used for monetisation, I am not sure the instance gets a cut of any sales, they are just connecting users.

That is an issue the Fediverse, with its anticapitalist stance, has yet to full address but Ghost is addressing how to monetise content in a Substack way and that subscription model is probably one that would be more acceptable on the Fediverse.

Bit of a chicken and egg situation there.

I suppose we could spin up a UK instance or find someone who would but then you’d need numbers to make it work too. However, if people would be interested in using this then speak up and it’d be easier to asses the need. It could be something regional instances bolt on as an added service.