Only if all users have to pay. If you charge power users (more than x posts a day, huge social graph, many images) you can fund the infrastructure and keep the platform free for plebs. This model would support infuencers who want to build a social business without shoving advertising down everyone's throat.
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that is essentially what elon is trying with the $8, seems futile tho
He's creating a two-tiered system where some users are more equal than others. I'm talking about a value metric based on activity.
I dunno I think it could work.
I just don't like the incentives it sets up. namely, power users are more important to nostr infrastructure providers than plebs.
he is asking people to pay the cost of netflix for the privilige of having a stupid badge while being the content providers for his service, just think about that for a moment, while also being forced into his vision of how it should run and what will be censored
when you say it like that it does sound a little backwards.
still, I'm not certain that it won't work out for him. ppl like being seen more than they like using common sense, right?
I think there could be a co-funding model for the power user accounts. Obviously their media hosting would cost more then a non-power user. Maybe as an account scales in popularity, they can create some kind of revenue can grow with it, where some goes back into the platform and some pays for hosting/compute costs indirectly.
Maybe micropayments for interactions. I don’t know. I’d like to find a business model that scales as cost scale. Then it’s just profit sharing.
users with a larger social graph are more valuable, you should be paying them not the reverse
elon could have used his 100million followers to start a new platform, instead his 44billion will get eaten by #nostr , #activitypub, #holepunch #keet and similar
You could do both, charge for hosting, pay out for engagement. The latter half of that would be challenging with nostr though.