ILP -> Web Monetization

[NightJanitor]

Will tomorrow's nightly dumpstering include stories about how Interledger protocol and its eventual HTTP integration will offer working, global, market-based solutions for all of this "if the service is free, you are the product" outcry?  I just read the papers that get thrown out everyday (frankly, it's not very high quality garbage, if you must know the truth), but it seems to me that Web Monetization is a key...

There are an infinite number of usecases that ILP could easily enable... Just while I was writing this I thought maybe I could add a sensor to my truck, then only charge you by the amount I gotta pick up.

Of course, if you threw out more interesting stuff, I'd probably be so engrossed in reading it that I wouldn't even think about having to raise my rates (or selling your garbage to the data brokers, as usual).

I'm telling you guys - it's all there in ILP.  The sad part is that I learned this by reading a bunch of disorganized garbage that all of you wrote, but somehow forgot or couldn't quite piece together.  Get to it!

NightJanitor

 

[NightJanitor]

Confused, Ripplista79?  That was not my intent.  I apologize, thusly:

It seems like an opportune moment for politicians (who are suddenly interested in internet technology, again) to be alerted to the fact that a technological solution to a technological problem may already be under development.  Further, that it is one which can scale globally, due to its currency-agnosticity, and will directly rebut any "but we'd have to charge money, otherwise we'd go broke" arguments (words which everyone's "friends" will no doubt speak some version of in front of those very politicians, this very week).  It is a "strong" defense if developing technologies to address the problem do not exist (they're new, but they do).  It is a "weak" defense if they resist embracing such solution.  But if they do, they are invincible.

If that remains too cryptic, I will say that I am referring, specifically, to Facebook, above, but ILP offers a technology which can free both users and platforms from perverse incentives; monetization, on a global scale for platforms/providers and on a micro-transactional scale for individual users, may hold the golden key to fixing some very broken business models...

(Did I do a better job of tailoring my writing style for this audience?)

[automatic]

52 minutes ago, NightJanitor said:

(Did I do a better job of tailoring my writing style for this audience?)

Still a bit on the dramatic side which is obscuring the point you are trying to get across.  I think you are onto something, but can't honestly tell quite yet.

[Trickery]

4 minutes ago, automatic said:

Still a bit on the dramatic side which is obscuring the point you are trying to get across.  I think you are onto something, but can't honestly tell quite yet.

Yeah kinda like preaching to the choir in Latin.

[XRPisVELOCITY]

2 hours ago, NightJanitor said:

I'm telling you guys - it's all there in ILP.  The sad part is that I learned this by reading a bunch of disorganized garbage that all of you wrote, but somehow forgot or couldn't quite piece together.  Get to it!

NightJanitor

 

Thank you for the compliments.

Now get back to cleaning toilets before you get fired.  

Just trying to be helpful. 

Edited April 9, 2018 by XRPisVELOCITY

[NightJanitor]

It was both a call to remembrance and sincere high praise.  (Maybe you'll believe that , someday.)

(No need to go back to cleaning toilets; that was the entire point of the exercise in the first place.)

 

Edited April 9, 2018 by NightJanitor
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[dithher]

On 4/8/2018 at 9:08 PM, NightJanitor said:

stories about how Interledger protocol and its eventual HTTP integration will offer working, global, market-based solutions for all of this "if the service is free, you are the product" outcry? 

I totally get you. This is the hot topic in Congress, the media, and half my social media friends list right now. 

Way back in the old days of social media, for instance on Livejournal, we would balk and scream at the idea of paying even $3 a month for social media access. And look what happened: advertising that led to massive lucrative data mining. If we hadn't cried like little babies about that small fee.......

But back then, you'd have to pull out your credit card and laboriously enter it into some Web 1.0 website that you trust to make monthly debits, and nobody liked doing that. Nowadays we think nothing of tossing $1 here, $3 there, $8 at Netflix, for an app, or an internet service.

I would definitely pay to not see ads. I would pay pocket change a month to use Facebook without invasive data tracking. They have 2.2 billion users globally, imagine if anyone in the world could pay them over ILP as easily as they go to their site over HTTP.

This could revitalize the newspaper industry, I would definitely pay a handful of cents to read an occasional story in WSJ, but instead they try to get you to subscribe some large amount of money for yearly (!) access.