[downandout]

The more I've played with various ways to share revenue with or create economic opportunity for users, the more I've realized that people just don't care about the money. There are of course some notable exceptions to this (Uber, eBay etc), but generally users have jobs and a few extra dollars just isn't enough to motivate them to change a single behavior.

[xdmnl]

People had jobs before doing youtube videos for a living.

I don't think Tsu should be seen as a way to make money (at least not in a near future) but as a way to get rewarded for the content you produce. The same content which makes the value of Tsu. Take Instagram for example, talented people post beautiful pictures which add value to Instagram. And yet they only are rewarded with likes/comments. Tsu tries to fix this.

[goblin89]

> Take Instagram for example, talented people post beautiful pictures which add value to Instagram. And yet they only are rewarded with likes/comments. Tsu tries to fix this.

They get rewarded with feedback, and if they produce good art they can license it through other means. Supposedly the latter should bring much more substantial money than earning a percentage on ads displayed behind a sign-up wall (why not do like YouTube and serve both content and ads to everyone?).

On the other hand, there do exist people who produce good art but choose to not monetize it. I can understand the attitude: unless I'm sure my art is great and will be widely appreciated, any resources I spend on monetization attempts will likely go to waste, only lowering morale. How do I tell my art is great? Well, fame.

On yet another hand, there's the YouTube crowd that makes money on their art without spending any resources on monetization or waiting to validate whether their art is good first. (Maybe this is due to specifics of video production? It's more engaging to consume and the barrier to entry is a little higher than with photography or text content.)

All in all, Tsu sure seems like an interesting initiative, it gives some food for thought and it'll be interesting to see what comes out of it.

[trucoseotips]

I fully agree. Social networks have the chicken and egg problem of users only using already established networks, though. Tsu.co's way of incentivizing content production could be a way to solve that.