The team responsible for Bluesky wants this decentralized social network to be profitable and for this they plan to incorporate a series of payment services, starting with the acquisition of personalized domains.

Bluesky is an open and decentralized social network project that seeks to grow and sustain its growth while being profitable. They have taken the first step by obtaining an initial round of financing of 8 million dollars, which has made it possible to expand the team, organize the operating and infrastructure costs, and grow the ecosystem with the AT protocol.

They also have commercial plans, which they will develop with a different strategy than usual in other similar platforms, which depend on advertising. Instead, they have opted for a type of monetization that does not involve selling user data, starting with custom domains.

“Domains have a lot of potential as a way to personalize identities and as a decentralized way to verify the reputation that is built from the existing web,” they explain from Bluesky on the official blog.

The service is offered in conjunction with Namecheap, so users can purchase and set up a custom domain as their Bluesky identifier and the AT Protocol. The platform also offers additional layers of privacy protection.

This is the first paid service they have announced since Bluesky, but they are “exploring” others that can be bundled for users.

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Meta announced updates to Facebook and Instagram monetization options for content creators, including a new marketplace and opening up the Reels bonus program to more people.

The company is currently testing a marketplace for creators on Instagram, a space where they can “get discovered and get paid,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post.

Creators will be able, with the new interoperable subscriptions, to offer subscribers who have on other platforms access to exclusive groups on Facebook. And earn money through stars, which allow you to monetize live streams, videos and Reels based on the amount of these elements you receive, now that they are being extended to all eligible creators.

Zuckerberg also announced the start of his monetized Play Bonus program, which will “soon” be available to “more creators on Facebook.” It will also allow Reels to be published on the main social network and monetized.

Another novelty focuses on digital collectibles. The test currently being carried out on Instagram, and with which Meta allows creators to display their non-fungible tokens (nft), will be extended to more people and will soon be available on Facebook as well. The test on the latter will begin in the United States and will allow cross-posting on both platforms.

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Meta announced that it is beginning to test new tools and different forms of monetization in its metaverse, Horzion Worlds, where creators will be able to buy and sell digital goods, services, and experiences.

Horizon Worlds is the first virtual reality (VR) metaverse created by Meta, which is currently available in the United States and Canada and can be accessed by users with the Oculus Quest headset.

In this universe, users can create their own virtual worlds and scenarios, as well as travel through those belonging to other users and interact with them, keeping a minimum distance of 1.2 meters.

Now, the company has made new options available to some companies and creators over 18 years of age from the aforementioned countries so that they can find the business model that best suits their needs.

“The metaverse, by the nature of not being limited by physical space, will bring a new level of creativity and open up new opportunities for the next generation of creators and businesses to pursue their passions and create livelihoods,” the company said in a statement release.

In order to carry out this action, Meta expanded its Horizon Creators Fund of 10 million dollars that it already announced in October of last year to encourage users to be part of this project, which is still in beta phase.

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Facebook developed a new monetization tool for content creators of the social network, based on a paid subgroups system that users can access by paying a monthly fee to access more content or exclusive functions.

According to what Meta’s management siad at the Facebook Communities Summit event, the social network is “testing the possibility that administrators can create fundraising campaigns to offset the operating costs of the groups”.

Among the novelties it was known that administrators will also be able to create subgroups and implement a subscription system so that interested users can consume exclusive content upon payment and thus monetize their activity on the social network.

In addition to access to exclusive content, users who subscribe to these subgroups will be able to access “experiences” such as ‘coaching’ or ‘networking’ with administrators. Likewise, they will have the opportunity to measure and modify if necessary the focus of their publications based on subscriber demand.

Content creators will have the opportunity to sell their own items or ‘merchandising’ through the store and “reinforce their sense of community“, according to the company.

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Microsoft is preparing the next generation of its Windows 10 operating system, as the company announced in the framework of Build 2021, although it will present the update in a separate event “very soon.”

Microsft’s annual developers conference, Build 2021, kicked off this Tuesday. During the inaugural ‘Keynote’, the company’s CEO, Satya Nadella, presented software news aimed at accelerating the transformation of organizations.

In his speech, Nadella also anticipated what will bring Windows 10: “one of the most significant updates of the last decade to unlock a greater economic opportunity for developers and creators.”

The manager has not revealed the details of the operating system update, because he will present them in a separate event that will take place “very soon”, but he has insisted on the new monetization opportunities for developers that the software will offer.

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Source: Swissinfo

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