The problem is finding the content though.

I ask this because I interacted with someone the other day who said they’d been up here for a while but nobody saw their stuff. This would be a way for them to get the eyeballs that would make their good content spread further. Then also I could see myself wanting to “boost” an episode of the show or a video. And it would be cool to pay to get into the feeds of people close to my circles, but who don’t follow me.

I think it probably feels dirty just because it’s advertising. But there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with advertising itself, it’s just generally been a really dirty environment because is non-organic and run by central parties.

Something like this could just end up being crap and abused for garbage, but then the user could cut it off and/or increase their price. But it wouldn’t change anything else about the experience.

Somebody brought up that this might have some serious technical limitations anyway, but it was just a thought.