We have two ways of paying for content on the internet:

One is “free” content, where we actually pay with our time, our attention, and our data. We do this inside platforms engineered to keep us watching longer than we intended.

The other is subscriptions, where we commit to ongoing payments for services we may no longer want. We do this inside platforms deliberately designed to make cancelling difficult.

Both models are hostile to users and corrosive to creators.

The solution is not new. It is the oldest economic model humans have ever used:

You pay for something, and then you receive that thing.

This is now possible with Bitcoin, Nostr and @Fanfares.

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