| Thanks for the feedback! There are indeed trade-offs, and I'm aware that most people would prefer to post for free. However, I believe the 100% free model is not sustainable, and it's worth experimenting with different approaches. Companies providing these types of services tend to become hostile towards their users over time in order to pay their bills, resorting to selling personal data, holding user-generated content hostage, or cluttering their websites with ads. Charging a small transaction fee to the user might also have some advantages: it discourages spam and encourages more thoughtful posting. And we're talking about an amount that is trivial for most users. Regarding speed, Algorand provides transaction finality in under 4 seconds, which is one of the main reasons I believe it's a good fit for this project. Creating a post or comment is a bit slower than posting on Hacker News, but it still feels pretty fast. As for scalability, I'd say let's cross that bridge when we get there. Currently, Metapost is only publishing text posts to the blockchain. Hosting things like images or videos would be better suited for IPFS, with only the links being published on the chain. |
You seem to have the business model backwards. People who post there are contributing their time and knowledge. They're giving you something. There's no reason for them to pay you. That's why web 2.0 can't be replicated on blockchains and no one has ever created a successful mainstream blockchain-based web 2.0 product.
In an age where platforms pay you for your content, such as Substack, I can't see how charging someone $0.01/post to write in a Reddit-like platform will have any success.
Regarding speed and scale - 4 seconds is an eternity in the modern web. IPFS won't work because it's too slow and again, too expensive.