The Future of Monetization

Patreon is an example of a kind of centralized monetization applied in a decentralized way, if you will. There's no analog for that in the Fediverse yet where some other big platform has figured out monetization on the scale of a YouTube or a TikTok or whatever and is providing into creators. You could imagine something like Patreon or maybe Mastodon itself integrated with activity pub so that when you subscribe to a creator and that creator posts something interesting just for their patrons, you'll see it. In whatever experience you're using, whether that's the ivory client on Mastodon, whether it's Flipboard, you'll seeing it.