#[4] would likely disagree that donations/v4v isn’t viable considering No Agenda has been running twice-weekly for 1500+ episodes on that model.

There was no simple means to pay for things like shareware in the 90s so that comparison doesn’t work - people were still using cheques and money orders and stuff for distant commerce.

Lightning changes this dynamic entirely, you are economically connected to every other Nostrich with a lightning wallet, anywhere in the world, on a single monetary standard. That takes out a LOT of friction and will enable new models to evolve.

A big new one I think will be fee sharing - splits on micropayments. If 1% becomes the norm for tx fees, this will either be shared end-to-end or we will end up with preference deals between the lightning layer and others. Maybe Nostrgram has a deal with WoS and gets splits there so you focus all your integration work on their API rather than broad support for example.