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sag-dab-sar · 9 months
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Monetizing Accessibility
I wrote a review awhile ago for an app that I heavily relied on due to my dyslexia and TBI— Speechify. Its a text-to-speech reader that I can take photos of text books or signs and have them read to me. I used it plenty. You can take as many photos as you want, upload them, and have it read to you. Well..... thats what you used to be able to do. Then I updated the app and tah dah the main feature is behind a paywall!!! I can upload 3 files (photo/photoset) only! And if I want more I have to pay THIS fucking much:
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So I updated my app review from 5 stars to 1
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Then a long time later I got this email:
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"One time discount" on something that was fucking free. Its the most basic feature. There were plenty of additional features to pay for and ads prior. Now the ENTIER goddamn app, including the absolute most basic function, above 3 files is behind a $140 paywall. I don't want 90% of the features just keeping files like I could before. Its not even a one time fee; its a subscription. As if my TBI and dyslexia only lasts a year. Not to mention I already deleted my entire library.
I fucking hate how goddamn expensive being disabled it is. The email is an insult.
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fansplaining · 4 months
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Today we're thrilled to publish our latest article—a piece on U.S copyright law and fandom by @earlgreytea68!
Fan creators don’t speak with one voice any more than any creative community speaks with one voice. I am well aware that I am one of you, but I am definitely not all of you. But most fan creators don’t consider themselves to be lazy or thieves—including me. In fact, all the fan creators that I know work very hard on our creations. We don’t consider ourselves to be stealing anything, because what we “steal”—some characters, some settings—is part of our cultural heritage, part of the world around us, part of the raw material we’ve been given to examine and make sense of our world, the way creators have for millennia.
She'll also discuss the topic on this week's episode, out today for Patrons and tomorrow for everyone else!
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bisexualbaker · 5 months
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Dreamwidth and privacy, Dreamwidth and apps
I got an ask about Dreamwidth that has since completely vanished from my inbox and my activity feed, but it had some important questions that I wanted to answer, so I'm going to try and address them anyway:
"How's Dreamwidth on privacy? Do they data mine?"
They only take as much information as they are legally obligated to and/or is needed to make the site actually function. You are the only one who gets to decide how much of that you share with the public, or how little.
Dreamwidth makes the money it needs to run the site entirely through its userbase. They do not sell our data and do not want to.
"Do they have a mobile app too?"
No, and they probably never will. I know this is a disappointment for a lot of Tumblr users, but it's one of the primary ways that Dreamwidth can ensure that it's free to use for all users, and that we can post as much NSFW stuff there as we want.
That said, the Dreamwidth team has done everything they can to make the site friendly to mobile browsing! IIRC there are even some layouts that are particularly friendly to mobile browsing. Install Firefox/Mozilla on your phone, or a clone of it you particularly like, and log in through that, and you should be able to use the site just as well as you could from a desktop computer.
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phoenixyfriend · 8 months
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My sister keeps telling me to monetize my tumblr if I regularly have posts with decent numbers of notes and I tried to explain to her that even the biggest names on tumblr (we were talking about vaspider and seananmcguire due to the scooby post getting some traction) don't really make a living off of it, and brand deals aren't a thing on here, and it's not exactly a Thing to transfer followership from this platform to others where it's more expected (insta, tiktok, etc).
And she keeps urging me to do it and I'm just like No, That's Not How Tumblr Works, Nobody Will Trust Me And I'll Lose All My Audience If I Try To Monetize In Any Way Other Than Direct Products Or Begging For Donations, Because Brand Deals And Similar Are Viewed As A Betrayal Of The Tumblr Standard
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wip · 4 months
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When will tipping and other monetisation features roll out to more countries? It's been nearly 2 years and it's still limited to
🇦🇺 Australia
🇨🇦 Canada
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇮🇪 Ireland
🇮🇹 Italy
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇪🇸 Spain
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🇺🇸 United States
Answer: Hey, @thefangverse!
So. We can confirm we are working to bring our monetization features to as many countries as we possibly can! Some take longer than others, however, so stay tuned.
Sadly, we can’t offer anything more specific at present. But as and when we have specifics regarding where it might expand, and when, you shall be the first to know.
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omnitheist27 · 16 days
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The 40 - A good investment
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@the-ravenclaw-werewolf and @purplemochi20055
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"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin
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I'm back again with another daily drabble of The 40. (Encouraging the completion of the final chapter of Main Character Syndrome (With Exceptions))
After going through some investments I made in Robinhood.com while trying to find a job, I decided to apply my woefully illiterate financial knowledge to the characters of The 40 by having an OC give them a challenge involving a loan of a ¥100 check.
The challenge? Use the ¥100 check and raise up to ¥100,000 in the stock trade by the end of the month.
Edward and Haruhi are woefully unknown to the Japanese stock trade, they are hitting up the books in the library regarding business and economics, and learning at a fast pace while simultaneously interested in the financial subjects. While Senku and Kobayashi started investing the ¥100 check into stocks.
To raise ¥100,000 in such a short time, the four members of The 40 traded like crazy. Many days went by as they loaded themselves with free caffeine to keep their eyes glued to the rise and fall of the stock trade, adding a certain level of stress.
To help ease things, Senku and Kobayashi both wrote their own computer programs using the library's computers that can track trends, analyze data, and automatically invest in something that would profit.
By the end of the month, the four of them managed to earn themselves good fortune that not only paying back the ¥100,000 and having a good amount of paper currency for themselves, but also gaining some great financial experience and literacy.
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Speaking of money, I think it's a good time for me to start doing the "tipping" feature of Tumblr to earn some side income for my artwork.
Just click on the "tip" icon below for more of my drawings!
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kabutoden · 1 month
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Hi! I'm thinking of opening a patreon. Posting continues as usual, but subscribers get access to all my old comics and monthly ill release some writing talking about and collection of art for a project, like putting all my bugstuck, razor rabbit or chimera claws art in one place. maybe monthly streams if ppl want to talk to me idk... im planning on posting a lot more of both bugstuck + original work in the future. i hope thats ok thank you all for following.
i dont have a job but i need income and i really dont enjoy monetizing my work. selling comics is hard when you want to release everything for free >_< getting a couple dollars from ppl who enjoy seeing my stuff would help a lot!
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eeveenicks · 6 months
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It’s so refreshing to come on tumblr and see people still use words like fuck and death and anything else they want because there’s no fucking algorithm and no one has to worry about monetization. I swear every time I see the word unalive I want to punt someone into the moon. Not necessarily the person who said it but just anyone involved in making it happen.
Now it’s Halloween season and I’m going to scream if I see shit like “The Walking Unalived” or “V*mp*r*s are the living unalived” or zombies referred to as “Ununalived creatures”.
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agallonofmilky · 4 months
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Look, i'm not encouraging staff to make Tumblr into a money hungry horrid website, but i'll be honest, i have no remorse or sadness for them when they add no monetizable features to the site, and then complain that its not making money. Clearly, from the blue check badge thing, we can see that its not impossible to make these users pay for things.(and then youve gone and made new badge designs free) Just add some interesting but overall unnecessary things that make the site more fun, and paywall it. thats going to be much more profitable than just waiting for people to donate or buy merch. Add dashboard customization i can buy to, idk, make posts into floating bubbles, i know so many people who would pay for that.
Not only that, but i also dont understand their approach to new features as well. I think theyre trying to imitate other sites(tumblr live, new for you page, etc.), but doing it in a bad way or just adding features we were glad arent in tumblr. On top of that, we have bugs and broken features that have gone unfixed since even before yahoo days. fix the search function already instead of trying to distract us with new features. Hell, if youre adding features, prioritize quality of life stuff. we dont need shiny new toys.
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fateroulette · 5 months
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monetization
so... i'm hoping to be able to monetize my fate/roulette stuff somehow
in the future, i'll probably be making & selling stickers of them
but while i'm still catching up with the current servant roster, maybe there could be some other ways i could monetize? what do you think?
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bouncinghedgehog · 21 days
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fansplaining · 15 days
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Episode 218: The Money Question 3: Books???
Following previous installments on the thorny intersections of money and fanfiction, Episode 218, “The Money Question 3: Books???” tackles the recent debacle around people illegally selling bound copies of others’ fic, which has mostly centered on mega-popular Dramione works. Jumping off from Elizabeth’s WIRED article on the subject—which ties the practice to the current pull-to-publish wave as well as the Twilight fan-run presses of the early 2010s—Elizabeth and Flourish discuss the context collapse when a fic “breaches containment,” double standards in attitudes towards money and various fan practices, and, for likely the 1,000th time on this podcast, what exactly “fair use” means. 
Click through to our site to listen or read a full transcript!
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h3sn3v3rb33n2plut0 · 8 months
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Only Things I Care About Rn: Nails , Money , Weed .
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peachyxxpuffs · 1 year
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brad bakshi is pure evil. and i love him so much for it. 
bUT NAH FR DUDE LIKE ACTUALLY WHY IS HE SO FINE? AND BABYGIRL(Y)?? I THOUGHT I WAS ON MY OWN ABT THIS BUT IT SEEMS LIKE SOME OF YALL AGREE??? ugh can’t get enough of this man fr. AND OH MAN THE JANITOR OUTFIT ISTG-
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ithemissawesome · 8 months
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A little birdie An elongated muskrat told me
As fun as it is to watch Twitter fall to its demise, it is disappointing how a site that was once made for friendly engagement and discussion across the web has devolved into a site that is plagued with negativity and polarizing discussion, and is also another product of monetization taking the life out of another part of the internet. The soul of Twitter has died a long time ago, now its body has been killed off. To their eyes the death of the symbol of what this site once was is nothing but another step of expanding their lifeless money-making web empire.
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fuzzyizmit · 9 months
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Damn it, Discord
Quit it.
I'm so sick of all this fucking monetization. Let me exist in a space without being sold to or selling something!
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