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When you do that "something much larger" I'd love to know about it.
I swore an oath to never again touch other people's revenues. But I'm happy to write software that lets them do it themselves.
And if someone is putting together something that makes this easier, I'm in.
Here's one: https://bandwagon.fm/687d46784d33f662525c6774
It's still a little spotty, because album sales are entirely up to the artists, and many of them haven't turned on the feature yet.
Plus, it takes a little bit of setup on their part - they need a Stripe account to accept the payments, then link those payments to the albums (and digital downloads) that they're selling.
But once that's done, it's pretty seamless.
From what I've been told by Interledger, those fees might not be so big anymore. IDK, the whole thing is a moving target.
For an open source project, we can't try to partner with every bank, or even a specific few. We need *something* like a gateway or API to connect to -- like Stripe, et al.
If either of our projects could find a way to hook into a "direct payments API/Gateway/thing" for banks, we'd be absolutely set.
Yep.
As a crypto outsider, "from trusted organizations" is the first big hurdle for me. I'm not sure who's trustworthy, and who's the next big billion dollar implosion. I'm sure there are some out there, but I don't really know where to start.
It was the crypto thing, wasn't it?
Man, if I'd believed in crypto even a little bit when I first heard of it, stashed away a few thousand Bitcoins, I could have funded the whole Fediverse by now.
Yeah, FEP-ef61 is still on the radar, but probably the back burner for now.
Another issue is that I don’t see a mechanism for actually *syncing* the content from one server to another.. so that still has to be addressed by some other spec (LOLA, for instance, if I could figure out how THAT works)
But.. once we have a “sync” in place, I’m definitely up for trying to tie an actor or a piece of content to some sort of DID.
We’re in for a wild couple of years, that much is certain!
Yes. I think payments work like like reverse homeopathy:
If you only have one <insert dangerous thing> it's really bad for you, but if you have FUCKIN' ALL THE DANGEROUS THINGS, you're super safe.
It's weird and counter-intuitive, but true 
Awesome. Me too.
It works on Bandwagon.fm today, but there’s more use cases that will really open up new kinds of interactions on the Fediverse.
What do you want to buy/sell here?
I'm a software developer working on a bunch of #Fediverse things: #Emissary, #Bandwagon, and bandwagon.fm - with several more in the pipeline.
It's a pretty strange mix that doesn't really fit today's Fediverse, but it makes sense when you see the end goal.
I got an opportunity at #Fedicon to explain myself, so here it is:
https://spectra.video/w/eod3ybLu7sHzAEMihej8km
It's not the greatest talk about Fediverse tech, but it's the best I've got so far, and I hope it inspires you to make great things here with me.
