diff --git a/feps/fep-8c3f.md b/feps/fep-8c3f.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f1563bb --- /dev/null +++ b/feps/fep-8c3f.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +--- +authors: Diogo Peralta Cordeiro , Phablulo Joel +status: DRAFT +dateReceived: 2022-01-18 +--- +# FEP-8c3f: Web Monetization + + +## Summary + +Web Monetization federation via [ActivityPub]. + + +## History + +The ability to transfer money has been a long-standing omission from the web platform. As a result, the web suffers from a flood of advertising and corrupt business models. Web Monetization provides an open, native, efficient, and automatic way to compensate creators, pay for API calls, and support crucial web infrastructure. + +[Web Monetization] is being proposed as a W3C standard at [the Web Platform Incubator Community Group](https://discourse.wicg.io/t/proposal-web-monetization-a-new-revenue-model-for-the-web/3785). + + +## Requirements + +In GNU social is [implemented](https://code.undefinedhackers.net/GNUsocial/gnu-social/src/branch/v3/plugins/WebMonetization/WebMonetization.php#L243) using an extra property `gs:webmonetizationWallet` on the actor object. + +### Example + +```json +{ + "@context": [ + "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", + { + "gs": "http://gnusocial.rocks/ns#", + } + ], + "id": "https://social.gnusocial.rocks/actor/42", + "type": "Person", + "inbox": "https://social.gnusocial.rocks/actor/42/inbox.json", + "outbox": "https://social.gnusocial.rocks/actor/42/outbox.json", + "preferredUsername": "alice", + "name": "Alyssa P.Hacker", + "url": "https://social.gnusocial.rocks/@alice", + "gs:webmonetizationWallet": "$wallet.example.com/alice" +} +``` + + +## References + +- [ActivityPub] Christopher Lemmer Webber, Jessica Tallon, [ActivityPub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/), 2018 +- [Web Monetization] Adrian Hope-Bailie, Ben Sharafian, Nick Dudfield, [Web Monetization](https://webmonetization.org/), 2021 + + +## Copyright + +CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication + +To the extent possible under law, the authors of this Fediverse Enhancement Proposal have waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.