I was about to tell you about it!
Although some people in the Fediverse, especially tied to the W3C, are not afraid of Fakebooz coming into our little community space, and will happily embrace it, many others understand the stakes and already felt the blow. Threats has already 150 million users on the one-way-Fediverse (you may read them but not reply, and viewing public replies to their public posts may require authentication to Mata services). This means that “as a test case”, Mata is already able to perform colonization of settlement on the Fediverse, sending more than 10 times more users than the existing – without mentioning the loss of users on Mastodon following the Threats test.
I’ve been suggesting Taler for a while to the ActivityPub community, and reminded them the open calls to tackle Taler integration at protocol level. That would not stop Mata, but that would at least guarantee that the rest of us have an ethical way of payment on the Fediverse.
Since TALER ICH and the SocialHub are federated, I would suggest using Go TALER! to help broaden the discussion and eventually have a solid (no pun intended) proposal from the Fediverse to TALER to fix the payment and micro-payment issue on the Fediverse. I have in mind the chinese model, where WeChat Pay has been integrated with chat applications for years. This is a criticial moment for the Fediverse, not to be missed, or we’ll leave in Disneyland forever – no, it’s not a great perspective kids, you can’t eat rainbow sugar all your life without getting really sick.