Jeremiah Lee

Jeremiah Lee is an Interledger technology ambassador grant recipient working on Web Monetization support within Mastodon and other federated social network apps. He previously worked as a software engineer and product manager at Stripe, Spotify, and Fitbit among other places. He grew up under the California sun, but now calls Stockholm home.

Harvesting Hope from Hiccups: Overcoming Standardization Hurdles

Standardization is an art, not a science. After Meta launched Threads, which promised to interoperate with the fediverse and Mastodon, some in the Interledger community became enchanted by the promise that further down the line this could positively impact the adoption of the Interledger Protocol and the W3C web monetization standard. Cynics, however, have noted that the reality of standards adopt…

Mastodon, micropayments, and the next era of the creator economy

Changes at Twitter and Reddit in 2023 caused millions people to rebuild their online communities on new platforms. Many chose products like Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Lemmy that were built on the Web platform’s social APIs. Instead of a single company controlling everything, thousands of independently managed communities joined together to create a social web. Digital creators can now own their so…