I don’t think requiring payments fully fixes the bot problems. With more sophisticated AI there will be increasingly bots that are able to profitably able to spam these platforms even if they have to pay for it.

Anyway, I’m not trying to protect Elon and I’m all in on nostr, I just think that if our hypothesis is right, we will not have to fight them with their own populist and attention seeking weapons, in fact it will be counterproductive.