The big difference being that here it’s people rewarding people for providing them value directly. On 𝕏 it’s the platform rewarding certain people for providing engagement that benefits the platform.
Discussion
Yes, but it will not stop the propagation of sensationalism just because people are being reward from millions of individuals vs a platform.
I’m skeptical that it will propagate in the same manner, or to the same degree. Maybe I’m wrong. It will be interesting to observe how those dynamics evolve here in the absence of central control.