8mo ago

Tipping XMR with proof of concept with Lemmy plugin system

github.com Proof of concept for Plugin system (fixes #3562) by Nutomic · Pull Request #4695 · LemmyNet/lemmy

This PR adds a basic plugin hook using Extism (webassembly), including a simple example plugin written in Go. Plugins can also be written in many other languages like JS, Rust, .NET or C. For now t...

A popular feature in other social media is tip crypto like Nostr using Lighting and Farcaster using Ethereum tokens.

There is no social media using tipping as piconeros, looking for opinions and discussion if this could be done in Monero.town?.

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Proof of concept for Lemmy plugin system

github.com /LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4695

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@gunnm @monero
There is no social media using tipping as piconeros
There is, I'm using it right now. Try to click on the "fediverse" icon near my comment, and on my site you'll see a donation button.
looking for opinions and discussion of this could be done in Monero.town
The easiest way is to convince Lemmy devs to implement profile fields: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2411
After that you can add a machine readable XMR address to your profile
- UX wise better have a tip button for each comment, profile fields is a good idea too.
  
  @gunnm @monero The address from profile field can be displayed near each comment. This is how tipping button works on my site.
  But if you want to count tips, and do it for each comment separately, that's much more complicated. I don't know if plugin system will be powerful enough for this.

Let nutomic build out the plugin system before work gets started on anything like this. These sorts of things have a way of drastically changing before they're done. Depending on how the plugin system is built this could be possible.
You don't really need a plugin though, Reddit has had tip bots for a long time and one could easily be built, but it would be custodial. I don't see though how a Lemmy plugin would not be custodial, but we will see I guess.