Patreon Competitor?

@nolan Another way of backing it up and increasing trust would be a privacy-first threshold DAO.
I started building the infrastructure for that, see moltrepublic.ai

Hey everyone, sorry I been out a while but I am back, and it's good to be back, missed all things here.
I used to reply couple weeks ago but looks like didn't work my reply here, i am a bug magnet lol.

First thing, I wanna announce that I created a pre-beta demo for xmrstars, you can create accounts (fans or creators) without any moderation required. Ofc it has some limitations but I believe everyone deserve some real time updates on here, so please check it out, if you see any bugs/suggestion or you can hack it, feel free to reach me out.

• https://dev.xmrstars.com
• gbkxefzhrrjh5prrbhdlbtgnrrubelyukalgct7jesqrv6b3mjtkb5yd.onion

Note: It's on mainnet, all the payments will work, so be careful. Also, just because it's demo, I limited the file upload from 5GB to 500MB, so it will not be gonna be same whenever we are on beta/alpha version. (VPS has limited resources, 8gb ram, 256gb ssd, 4cpu and 2.5g network port, already monero node and other things used 100gb+ storage :) )

Now, let me try to answer some question on thread. There are some discussion about payment fee, after thinking long time, I decided to let this go. Every creator deserves 100% what they getting from fans. There is no platform fee, which is very bad idea for business wise but I think community can donate the cost of project in future, which I am thankful about that.

@FiatDemise thank you <3 yes please, it would be great if you guys can change the username :) btw good luck with xmrpod project, i will check it out soon.

@Otherfren i will check it out soon, thank you for building for community <3

Other than that, Thank you for all the donations on here and xmrchat <3, I will try to update more about everything as long as I am getting better. Please let me know if you find any bugs on this development build, I hope most of you guys like the UI/UX and also features.

Take care yourself everyone <3

XMRChat tip page url updated, it's now https://xmrchat.com/xmrstars.

Side note, your Podcast RSS content link isn't right, reminded me we need to add validation for that.

@sepia https://xmrstars.com/ - this has potential?

Who has tried it? @ditty or @FiatDemise ???

I haven't tried xmrstars. I'm too busy with XMRChat and XMRPod.

@ditty It has a lot of potential in fact. This project solved two problem that faced by Monero economy and the current censorship landscape.

1. Solving the lack of people using Monero
   The most prominent problem that challenged Monero economy is the fact that people need to jump alot of hurdle to get to using Monero and spend it. This create unnecessary friction that deter people from using Monero as payment solution. Not only that but the goods that people want that can be purchased with Monero is really niche and small. As we know money are worthless when you cannot buy what you want with it. This is where this project shine. We bring what people want which is valuable content. Then we insert Monero as the bridge of these values. As the project values the user freedom (as long as it's not breaking any law in their country), it will bring alot of content that can't be attained anywhere else. This will be the incentive for people to use monero and use this website.

2. The shelter of freedom for creator
   Patreon shooting themselves in the foot by banning people that not aligned with their ideology. This create an opportunity for us to take care of these people that get banned without any concrete reason. It can also become a great way for people that getting banned from their paypal to still earn money with Monero. Well I don't need to explain much for this point I think we all know the gist of it.

And damn the website looking good. Add the choice to customize our own page and it will be lit.