[bobiny]

I wasn't talking about Twitter specifically. Ads are a dominating revenue model: Youtube, Instagram, Facebook etc. I had an idea of people using crypto payments instead of likes. A platform would take a cut.

[treeman79]

So PBS?

Or government funded/controlled socials.

[bobiny]

Maybe something funded by public, yes.

I think there is a need for smaller existing community-based social networks. They can be paid for by certain people or crowdfunded once in a while like Wikipedia.

[WJW]

I'd expect like counts to fall precipitously if you had to pay for every single one.

[usefulcat]

OTOH a like would mean a lot more because it would mean someone literally put their money where their mouth is.

[LegitShady]

you can see with youtube premium that the value of individual ad views is basically nothing, and getting users to pay a reasonable monthly fee ends up being much more profitable. nobody will do the 'pay per video' thing because its not as profitable as just getting a monthly sub.