I wanted to take the time to discuss some updates to decentmemes today. While my focus has mainly been scrobble.life lately, I'm usually always on the side doing some work on dm and holozing as well.
For the widget and database, we wanted to also offer pre-made memes as most of you are familiar with when using tenor/giphy/etc, meaning image and gif templates that already have the text pre-filled so you don't need to re-create it if it already fits the way you wanna use it. Since people have already been creating memes, this meant that we can re-use those and send them part of the beneficiaries their way if we use a pre-made meme they've originally created.
By clicking on this button in the decentmemes widget, you'll be able to browse already made memes.
We do plan on adding a "most used" pre-made meme function as well similar to the templates (the fire emote on the button above) and there's also some more polishing so the username of who created the meme doesn't block the text used in the meme if you wanna quickly pick one rather than open it up in the editor, etc.
We've now created profile pages on decentmemes.com so you can login with keychain to track your own stats.
Other than that we've also started working on web2 login using gmail and discord (shared with scrobble.life login token) although we don't really know how to protect spam/flooding there yet the way we do on Hive. Maybe people will have to subscribe for a low monthly cost using fiat to be able to submit memes daily, that's for later to decide.
For Hive Subs that I announced some time ago, we will be utilizing decentmemes website to have creators submit their emotes, stickers, holo card creations, collectibles, etc that'll be used on scrobble.life when consumers subscribe to them. So more work has been put into that lately, here's a preview:
Creators will be able to submit a certain amount of emotes they themselves have created which their subscribers can then use on their posts' comment section or on other people's comment sections and anywhere else on the site as long as they are subscribed. Same goes for stickers, cacha collectibles, etc. Creators will be able to set tier requirements for specific emotes/stickers, for instance if you wanna use certain emotes that require a tier 2 or tier 3 sub, then you need to have that sub to the creator to access them.
Subscriptions will also always show when commenting on the author's post as well as subscription streaks, i.e. if you've been subscribed for 12 months to a creator you'll stand out more with the info being apparent as well as how comments are ordered in the comment section.
Cacha card and other collectibles will also automatically be drawn and granted to subscribers when they subscribe with weighted rarity but upon subscribing again you won't get the same collectible you've already had. You can also only get a gacha once per sub/month to avoid turning this into gambling for collectibles. Naturally the collectibles are also not tradable, but on your profile page you'll be able to select which one you showcase when commenting on a creator you've subscribed to. When commenting on other creators you've also subscribed to, it'll default to showing the rarest collectible you have of theirs.
Creators are open to add more "content" over time but they may have to subscribe to scrobble.life to avoid spam/flooding of too many uploads over time.
Anyway, as you can see, there's some more additions to make the platform stand out more and introduce different gamifications and show of support to your favorite creators so it's not all about the reward pool all the time. We've also added some ways the platforms could earn a little bit of revenue if users wanna subscribe and support it since most of the work so far has been non-profit. We may experience with this more later for new additions but without taking away existing infrastructure to place that behind paywalls as is the norm in the space lately.
Thanks for reading and memeing!
