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by decohen 1610 days ago
This is an interesting idea, but I wonder what the effects would be on smaller or newer platforms. Would it cost say $5 for a post on Facebook, but only $1 for a post on my neighborhood's Nextdoor?

FWIW, I did some thinking about this general problem a while back, and my best idea so far is to make content artificially scarce, by limiting the number of users that can see a given post in a given period.

This has the nice property of not requiring expensive moderation, complex algorithms, or (as is the proposal here) usage charges.

More details here, if interested: https://danielcohen.dev/politics/technology/2021/01/15/socia...