Title is mostly the post. I had the realization the other day that if you break down the “pay to post” idea to its basic components it’s literally just describing paid advertising we see across media. If you boil down Reddit or Google to its “pay to post” components, it’s the promoted posts or AdWords. It’s distinct in the scale at which people pay (as opposed to free + advertising), but the concept of paying to make people see your content is ancient.

@DarthCoin keeps reposting “this is a pay to post platform” as if it’s a new epoch of content, saying the reward mechanism is meaningless and bullying people on here for even talking about the reward system despite that being a key differentiating mechanic (ie Reddit Karma does nothing except create a small threshold to prevent spam). Why isn’t this valid? If anything, this is more novel because it provides micro incentives for good content like substack or patreon at a much lower scale without the formality / registration processes.

I sort of put this thought aside, but then @DarthCoin me a retard for asking about a stock so I bothered to type this out. To be fair, credit to him for a lot of his content like coining assmilking and calling it, promoting BTC etc… but holy hell dude

@k00b for the avoidance of doubt, great site