Has anyone noticed anything different about dev.to today?
I did. It is monetized.
DEV is going to be a platform for monetizing your posts.
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Not without the typo of repeating step 3 🤪
But yeah, we're live with web monetization, this was the PR:
What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)
Description
This is the first step in implementing web monetization.
Web monetization is a protocol which allows websites to accept micro-payments to any page with the payment pointer meta tag. It's not yet standard, but through Grant for the Web, there will be lots of experimentation with this and we're getting involved ourselves.
For anyone that does not have a payment-enabled browser (or browser extension for now), this is just a meta tag that doesn't do anything at all. For anyone that does have payments activated, they'll start streaming tiny amounts of payment into our wallet.
This is the first step just to experiment for the site, but if it's all technically straightforward, we'll soon be adding the ability for authors to plop their payment pointers onto their content to get paid directly with no intervention from us.
This is all lightweight experimentation from us. As you can see from the size of this PR, it's not a huge technical commitment on our part, but if the ecosystem takes off, it will be fun to see what we might do. We'll definitely be following projects like this.
For other live communities looking to implement payment pointer wallets, it's pretty complicated to get going at the moment, so we'd advise to not bother as of yet because earnings will be fairly minuscule early on. The process will be much more straightforward if/when the ecosystem matures and you won't miss out on much while we experiment. Get in touch with us if you're curious about how you might leverage this on your platform in the future.
We're not expecting this to be revolutionary to our end users or our business overnight, but we're excited to play a part in pushing forward some really good ideas.
You must have meant:
I think this will reward a more pragmatic approach to content, where some people may get rewards from their posts providing more concrete value, rather than simply getting attention.
There are a lot of really good ideas out there for content monetization, many of which may reform the trash fire that is the majority of the content of the web.
So this isn't going to be like Mediums pay walled articles, right? From the PR description, it looks like it would be optional.
Damn, that's too bad. My luck, find something great just before things go sideways. 😭
No paywalls, this is just going to be a way to tip authors as you read for folks who have Coil or monetization enabled.
Paywalls are antithetical to how the dev ecosystem works. There could be a different feature on the site which would only work with web monetization but haven’t thought that far out.
Now we just need a 🤑 reaction.
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I really do want to broaden the reactions
I was wondering when that shoe would drop.