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> If people aren't willing to pay for it then I'm not sure it is a good business model. People literally can't pay a sane price for content. A blog post or war

> If people aren't willing to pay for it then I'm not sure it is a good business model. People literally can't pay a sane price for content. A blog post or warmed over press release isn't worth a penny let alone a dollar. Ads unfortunately are the only mechanism to pay the sub-cent value for content. Even if you could reasonably conduct a penny transaction that's still an insane price to pay for a blog post or tweet. So it's not about people being unwilling to pay it's about being unwilling to pay transactable amounts of money for content that's nowhere near worth those amounts.

johnnyanmac 3y ago
>Even if you could reasonably conduct a penny transaction that's still an insane price to pay for a blog post or tweet. depends on the content TBH. some (relatively few in the grand scheme of things, but "some" when focusig on otherwise helpful feeds) blogs are worth their weight in gold. some feel like they should pay me to even read it. I do wish a micropayment sort of system was feasible in general so we could test such models. But I'm guessing that's a logistics issue with payment vendors; they probably don't like small, disparate transactions anymore than a GPU. Still, I've tried the closest thing for a few comic websites back then where you buy "coins" in bulk and purchase new releases a la carte (e.g. say, 2000 coins for $10, and each new chapter is 10 coins. so roughly 5 cents). Doesn't feel too bad.