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Hey Sultan, thanks for doing the AMA.
Web Monetisation can be overwhelming for many beginners. How would you explain it to a noob?
Hello Crescellia Yu Thanks for this great question.
Web monetization is like these: From the creator's(someone providing a content online) angle: It's a service or a system that allows you get money directly from the people using your contents. In this case, you're getting direct revenue(money) in real time because a user out there is using the content you're providing. This content could be a blog post, a website, a game, a video, a podcast. Anything at all. If it can be on a url, it can be web monetized.
From the user's (The person using a content) angle: It's a system or a service that allows you pay or tip the creator of the content you're using in real time, immediately you're using the content, you're supporting the creator... Now the advantage in this is that, the creator can decide that, Ohh, if any user that uses web monetization comes to my blog, let them get an extra information apart from the public blog post, Ohhh, my website/blog will not show ads when a user using web monetization is using it, I need to make their experience better. Ohh perhaps if a user using web monetization comes to my game, give them an extra life, or a golden sword, or an extra stage.
Web monetization can be explained in different ways, depending on which angle you're explaining from. I'd be glad to answer more questions.
My friend Chris Lawrence from Grant for the Web can also add to this.
Hi Crescellia and Thanks Sultan
Grant for the Web is looking to fund people and projects that are building on/with Web Monetization to create new business models for the web, especially ones that act like the web. One simple way to describe WM is that instead of data packets traveling over the internet, its money.
A nice fun and interactive way, Crescellia Yu is to walk-through Sharon & Elliot's 'A Web Monetization Story', noting that it's still work-in-progress.
Desigan Chinniah Thanks for the shout-out Desigan! We really hope that 'A Web Monetization Story' can be a non-intimidating introduction to Web Monetization!
To Crescellia Yu and anyone else who tries it out: please don't hesitate to share your thoughts with Sharon Wang and I in this thread! We would love to hear them 😀