One weird idea I heard was along the lines of "pay $x to read an article; if you didn't like the article, you can choose that the next person who reads it gets

One weird idea I heard was along the lines of "pay $x to read an article; if you didn't like the article, you can choose that the next person who reads it gets refunded". One kindof criticism of social media is that it's very performative. Many solutions I've seen involve the idea of adding some kind of friction. "slow to process" is obviously bad, but the idea of adding costs to things isn't one I'd outright rule out.