@ono Yeah, fair point. It’s more geared towards patron support and donation prompts, but it does support things like redeemable codes, which could be paired with some kind of recurring donation system.

It does make me wonder what it would take to build in a checkout system, and whether that goes way beyond what a static site can handle.

This magazine seriously needs moderators.

@BraveSirZaphod Hey, I’m the guy that wrote this. While I absolutely hold negative bias towards Meta, the point of the article was not to produce a piece of propaganda, but instead illustrate that their policies have updated to acknowledge the existence of third-party accounts on other servers, that they will be collecting data, and that this is likely a sign that federation may be happening sooner than expected.

Not everybody is happy about that, and some developers are working on hardening their applications to protect against unauthorized access for edge cases related to this.

It’s entirely possible that a fediverse platform emerges that’s capable of performing many different kinds of activities. But, the far more likely outcome is that platforms eventually implement the Client-to-Server half of the ActivityPub protocol, which currently very few platforms implement.

The idea is that virtually every Fediverse platform could, in theory, act as clients for one another, enabling a “one account posts everything” possibility with different frontends accessing different subsets of data.

This has nothing to do with the Fediverse, get this spammy crap out of here.