“…what if [*enter your preferred social media platform here] integrated a lightning wallet and made it, for example, 100 sats ($0.028) to send a tweet [or equivalent], with that payment going to *Twitter, and 1 sat ($0.00028) to like and 10 sats ($0.0028) to comment, with that payment going to the content creator? I think this would be awesome and would accomplish so many things.
First, it would largely solve the bot problem by attaching a cost to posting, liking, and commenting.
Second, it would allow content creators to share in the value they create for the network in a very granular and fair way. A post would only need to get ~5 comments and ~50 likes to breakeven, and the stakes are low with only a ~$0.028 up front cost to post. All users, including power users and highly visible, respected voices would get their fair share of value back from the network for contributing to the public discourse.”