[algorade]

> In an age where platforms pay you for your content

Posting rewards the user with platform tokens. Upvoting also acts as tipping the author of the post. The economics are not 100% figured out, but I am convinced there is a way for these micro-payments to work and create a self-sustaining platform.

> 4 seconds is an eternity in the modern web

I disagree, but I think this is mostly a UI issue. You can have optimistic updates on the frontend while the transaction is confirming and make it feel exactly like a web2 site. I’ve worked on applications with similar latency pretty recently and the solution is often just to add more caching layers to make it feel fast and snappy for the user.