The ability to editorialize and share photos is integral to our social experiences on the Web - we expect to have this functionality. Yours[dot]Org adds a layer of economics to content distribution on social platforms.
We’ve already seen how quickly people gravitate to exciting projects that allow them to express their ideas graphically when I explored Bitstagram a few weeks back. Because it is fun and doesn’t encumber users with the weight of membership, they are willing to “pay to play”.
If you have been posting to Bitstagram, that means you already possess $BSV. Maybe you’ve even earned a little from your posts and are looking for another way to use the tokens to encourage the creation of media and freelance publishing.
Helping creatives to build audiences away from advertising-based networks like Facebook (who operate as visibility gate-keepers) is valuable. If content producers can in small ways finance their creative process, they can use highly insightful monetary feedback as an instructive mechanism about which types of content to create or topics to address.
It has certainly been true in relationship to my exploration of the Steemit platform. What originally was an extra outlet for my photography and writing, in time, lead me to develop long-form editorial, pictorial, and videographic media that relays my personal life and interests. This occurred because people responded to the photography and the imagery gathered into video albums. But each community is different, it’s not fair to judge the experience of one platform by the standards of another.
This is perhaps doubly critical when comparing Yours[dot]Org to Steemit’s economic model. They are vastly different. Primarily the variations deal with the Steem Network’s Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain that rewards participants out of a pool of freshly-minted Steem tokens. Yours[dot]Org on the other hand is financed only through user response. The money was taken from another user’s wallet, which is built into the site.
Before being tipped for posts I made to the blogging platform, I considered taking some spare $BSV from my Money Button wallet to add to my Yours wallet. However, the community is still building momentum - what you choose to spend on content is your own choice. Point is, there isn’t quite a constant flow of new posts just yet. It may be worthwhile to hang around and participate in a casual way, mixing in the platform as an additional channel for content released elsewhere or a way to workshop ideas before you release them to your primary outlets.
It is worth noting that Yours does not currently integrate Money Button but that functionality is on their roadmap. Both of these projects are being developed by some of the same folks. The community rising up around Money Button is impressive, don’t surprised if you start seeing this this payment application popping up around the Web.
What do you think of the recent uprising trend toward viewer-supported content platforms like Steemit or Yours? Does it remind you of the pledge drives from PBS television or NPR broadcasting? Crowdfunding has certainly created its share of victories and revivals - are these the financing platforms that accurately model human nature?