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**_TL;DR I think Web Monetization can be an ethical replacement for ad revenue and should be implemented to behave similar to ad revenue._** Looking through some monetization options on Wikipedia,...

Fair points. I meant it in the sense that they are easiest to support. I agree with your point about affiliate links but they seemed similar enough to donation links...

Those are some interesting suggestions for the incentives. I didn't really know much about that but they seem pretty cool. As for monetization for platform, I think that would indeed...

I thought it might be useful to think of these monetization options in terms of the available revenue streams for the parties involved. So I tried to list them all...

> That's a good point. I think though that if native support is not included by default for any single platform, but instead there is a plugin for it which...

This is the plugin that was created based on this discussion [a while ago](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/1586#issuecomment-775251018). And it is the one that I referred to in [my original comment](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/1586#issuecomment-1114308843). And yes, it...

I think you're suggesting to monetize based on donations to groups of instance owners instead of each instance owner directly. That way instances can group together and donations to all...

> To me this seems similar to streaming micropayments and Coil. Is there a difference to it? I initially thought the same and Flattr does seem very similar. But the...

I think it's fair to say at this point that donations (streaming and like-based microdonations, one-time or periodic donations) are the most likely revenue stream that Peertube would have to...

[This article](https://puri.sm/posts/is-ethical-advertising-possible/) from a company trying to look for ethical ways to advertise their products reminded me that advertising is not inherently unethical, and they are even necessary for most...