Evaluate how a federated boost system could work

Goals

• Allow users to spend Minds tokens to advertise on other networks
• Allow other networks to serve boosts and earn
• Unstoppable token utility

ActivityPub Option

(Assume Minds.com adds ActivityPub support)

• Build way for people to boost ActivityPub posts with Minds Tokens (note: anyone supporting ActivityPub should be able to add support for this so there are immediately many networks someone can create a post and boost it)
• Minds tokens spent on boost go into a smart contract and are held until the boost gets served (?)
• Build way for other websites to serve ActivityPub boosts and earn tokens based on number of impressions served

Musings

• This will probably only work onchain
• Potentially incentivize sites to serve boosts with treasury rewards on top of earnings from boosts
• Perhaps sites could have option to only accept boost offers or all? Moderation matters
• Fraud prevention. Are we basing on impressions or perhaps more just rotation based on bid?
• Embedded boost widget would probably be designed like a sidebar boost
• Would the ID be activitypub ID, DID or combination?
• Any analytics for advertisers, publishers?
• Can advertisers choose which sites to display on?
• How does this impact the current boost systems on Minds? Would boost partners be powered through federated boost or normal? I imagine offchain makes things complicated.
• is any of the work done so far on activitypub relevant? Would minds support activity pubs for non boosts as well? I would think we might as well (minds#90 (closed))