[blindseer]

This is only going to make it easier people like crypto scammers to boost their activities. Just think about the people that are going to want to pay to have their voices prioritized, and have it be worth it.

Any influencer that wants to sell you ads, any organization that benefits from you buying into their product, any scammer that can trick you from parting with your money, all those people are going to want to pay for this and will be rewarded for doing so.

Meanwhile, I struggle to see why the people that generate actual good discourse (imo I guess), the scientists, the engineers, the writers, the thinkers, etc, would ever consider paying for this.

I'm sure there's a massive bot problem but couldn't that have been dealt in different ways? Getting people to pay to boost their tweets as a value add for the subscription really devalues the platform.