What is the “new paradigm” profit model for businesses on a sovereignty respecting protocol … if it’s not lizard brain “eyeballz for ad dollarz”?
Discussion
Good products can have premium features. Small-scale companies with low costs don't need a business model that "scales". Common open source business models, like charging for support or hosting allow alternative monetization. User-run and premium infrastructure prevent hosting from being a cost center. Advertisers and producers of paid content (who need organic engagement) can drive their own engagement by producing useful content.
These are awesome … but are they enough?
So either these “new paradigm” incentives alone (like what you mentioned, and others we’ve always had) will grow to be strong enough (with Nostr in the mix) to overcome the inertia of “how we’ve always done it” … OR some (decentralized) version of disincentive comes into play that will push the market in this new direction.
What is it about Nostr that will disincentivize the lizard brain “eyeballz for dollarz” revenue model from being “the de facto standard” to being “an unaffordable liability”?