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Fun monetization strategy for federated apps - federate with your own instance dedicated to ads.

But more seriously what is the monetization strategy for federated apps? Up front pay or subscription for using the app?

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You can look at how email is monetized for some ideas. Everything from ad infested free client to pay service to freebie with the purchase of your internet connection.

I suppose you could have an 'Apollo' style app providing a nice UI for power users with a subscription cost. I could see it being a solid revenue stream for small teams/indie makers. Difficult to get to the kind of scale needed for advertising to be particularly profitable unless we get some kind of federated facebook ads platform...

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