halalmoney on Nostr: Pay-to-post increases content quality Value-for-value increases content quality ...
Pay-to-post increases content quality
Value-for-value increases content quality
Profitiability affects user retention
Zaps obviously make social media better.
But what about requiring users to pay some sats before they post?
For the last 8 months, an economics professor has been studying pay-to-post on stackernews (nprofile…8syn)
Here's what they found out:
https://stacker.news/items/1367455
Published at
2026-04-08 15:58:34 UTCEvent JSON
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