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dashrandom

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Singaporean, somewhere on the spectrum.
Interests: Cybersecurity, travel, investments, blockchain & cryptocurrency, fighting games.
I speak English, some Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese & Hokkien), some French.

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dansup , to random
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The challenge with a federated DeviantArt platform will be payments, if they can offload that to a 3rd party by allowing users to add links to the store, it could work IMO

Otherwise, each instance would have to host their own Stripe payments account, and other complexities

Not to mention, giving Apple/Google Play 30% of the cut

In @pixelfed, we're handling this by allowing users to add links to specific items that redirect to 3rd party platforms

We can do this, watch me 😎

#notJustInstagram

dashrandom ,
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@kitten_tech @dansup @pixelfed I was about to suggest crypto as a solution actually. But the transaction costs for micro payments could be pretty unacceptable for most people 😕 probably only Bitcoin Cash or Litecoin would have acceptable transaction rates...

dansup , to random
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I'm debating reviving my official pixelfed hosting service idea, it's not a regular host service though!

Rather you'd bring a S3, Hetzner, Linode, DigitalOcean API key to our service

We would provision or otherwise manage (1-click updates, automated backups) your instance while allowing you to maintain total control over ownership of the underlying server and data

I'm thinking $5-20 a month for this, and it would allow admins a new level of peace of mind while maintaining total control

Wdyt?

dashrandom ,
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@dansup why not both? Fully hosted instances appeal to a different crowd vs the ones who are concerned about total data sovereignty and know how to spin up a VPS or compute instance and administer it.

That said, I would think your idea is more appealing to the segment of people who use the Fediverse in general. I'd like to suggest being able to set everything up with just SFTP access or some kind of API baked into the app + license key (similar to how many WordPress plugins do it).

dashrandom ,
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@dansup ah good point. You're right, you'd also have upfront costs as the services may not run back to back with monthly billing. There's quite a bit of liability. Good thinking!

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