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How to monetize your blog. Incredible tips. https://modem.io/blog/blog-monetization/

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can't believe i'm missing out on all those pennies by not putting ads on my blog!

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You could have like, a stick of gum by now! SMH, you're slacking.

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ikr why am i wasting all this time playing with open standards and putting weird stuff on my homepage when i could be raking in profits (๑>ᴗ<๑)

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Back in 2021, after speaking with some friends in the blogging community, I wrote a post about why I chose patronage via Buy Me a Coffee as the means of “monetizing” my blog. The arguments I made there about how ads engage in non-consensual tracking forced onto page visitors, and are thus unacceptable, informed everything I’ve written and done since as a “creator” including the various iterations of this article 👇 https://thumbsup.mirror.xyz/u3Ue1hNOb6ifdhzMWChzGyrS5h6u1yzyGwMVw0RHRmw

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yes i read that a while ago! i think about this topic a lot re: open internet access. ad-driven anything is just horrible ux. i often think about this from kottke a few years ago: "I call this “unlocking the commons,” and it’s the same approach I’ve taken with my Patreon and newsletter. Fans support the person and the work. But it’s not a transaction, a fee for service. It’s a contribution that benefits everyone. Free-riders aren’t just welcome; free-riding is the point." https://kottke.org/17/12/unlocking-the-commons-or-the-psychoeconomics-of-patronage

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Yeah I love the way you said that. It’s exactly what I was getting at too. The art is free, the information, free. Take it. Benefit from it. But if you are thankful it exists and want the person who made it to continue to thrive and even create more, support them.

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i think that's part of what initially interested me in nfts as a format. nothing is stopping anyone from right-click saving the images. but they offer a more direct way for ppl who have the means to support a creator of something that they wish to see more of in the world. and the fact that ppl could be supported in this way opens a path for the creation of more of their content to be right-click saved (enjoyed) by ppl with lesser means (⌒_⌒;) i'm not sure that's really how it's played out tho ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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yeah I couldn’t agree more. for the moment the crowd who’s invested the most money into nfts are those who think of them through the framework of (physical) art collection. but they aren’t that. they share some characteristics (probably even the ones we should identify in those artworks perceived value), but the art itself is not made scarce in any meaningful way. as patronage, it works though. at least on the initial sale. and this perhaps aligns with the argument in favour of programmatic royalties too. but it also implies that perhaps trading is not very sensible; again, something that doesn’t bother me, but which undermines a lot of people’s entire crypto value thesis

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