295 sats \ 5 replies \ @mary_imasuen 23 Aug 2022 \ on: Alby Releases InSATgram: Upload images, earn sats bitcoin
As much as I believe that it's important for content creators to be compensated for their creative work, the current model Alby has right now with InSATgram makes it really difficult for people to truly appreciate content created by the content creator.
If you look at the model that SN and Zapread have, they are literally creating a platform where creators are compensated/given sats for their creative work. The creative work does the speaking and the consumers get to vote (with their sats) on how valuable the content is.
From a content marketing and branding perspective, the InSATgram model doesn't give room for the content creator to create a genuine connection with their readers. That makes it difficult for the creator to grow. If the creator doesn't grow, it will affect the success of the platform.
If you refer to the model that Starbackr has, you get to see content creators actually given the chance to get their content and creative work to do the talking. It would be interesting to see InSATgram doing its unique spin on Instagram using the current model that Starbackr, SN, and Zapread are following.
I think the InSATgram model as it is right now could work for the content creator's premium content or subscriber-only content where the content is locked to non-subscribers but open for subscribers. But this model should never be something that works as a standalone.
I love Alby and what they are doing but I feel that InSATgram would need some work. I look forward to see what they come up with.
hey, yeah totally agree and nicely put there!
This is a hackday showcase project exploring what we can do with lightning web technologies and how easy it is becoming to build lightning integrated web apps. (without the app even touching sats directly actually)
To make this into a real product used by creators to sell content quite some more work is need and there are already great platforms that do that - I hope they will deeper integrate lightning to make the UX and payment flows better. (this is also what we at Alby want to help developers with... making it easy to implement the open lightning web standards).
I've made some notes on how the app works in the background: #63022
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what you said is absolutely right, and people will upload random stuff to sell, and that might be even copyrighted content also. Just like opensea, at first people made everything as an NFT for a quick buck. Still, this is still a new project and I like to give it the benefit of the doubt. But again, what you said is on point.
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Yeah, I also want to give a benefit of doubt. Alby creates awesome products so I'm looking forward to how InSATgram will evolve
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It's not meant to be a product. It's a demo application of the gin-LSAT library developed during the summer of bitcoin.