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corndalorian | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 That’s not going to happen. A good pipe dream though.
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OrangeMan | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I could see this happening, I believe.
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corndalorian | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 The scale to which Nostr would have to grow its user base in order for this to be possible even with the most popular accounts is something we won’t see for a LOOOOOOOOOONG time. But sure, for the sake of discussion, yes more scale will make the smaller zaps cumulatively worth more. That still doesn’t address the atrociousness of thinking that tipping someone 1¢ is a good tip though. The average Nostr is not that poor. Good content isn’t free or cheap to make, and if people aren’t willing to pay what it’s worth, then creators will go elsewhere. If you think good content is worth 1¢ then you’ll only get shit content that’s worth 1¢.
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hh | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It is free the moment you put it out there for free. That's the nature of content in electronic format: once you put it out, it's not your anymore and people will simply not pay. Why would they?

It boggles my mind, this insistence that people somehow have an obligation to pay for stuffs that's made available for free, voluntarily, or that they have to pay a certain fixed amount, but without explicitly making them do so by putting a price on the access to that content. If you feel you deserve 1 dollar instead of 1 cent for a piece of content, have the courage to paywall it.

V4V has all the incentives upside down and will never, ever, "work", if "work" means paying as much to the content creator as they would get from a paywalled system.