So currently the content platforms are optimizing for people to spend the most time in those platforms. With sats, the platforms are likely going to be optimizing for people to spend the most sats in them - in my opinion that's much better situation, but there's still a risk that we will see the type of posts that people are likely to reward the most. It may also become polarized with incentives to send sats to one side of the argument, etc.
If it becomes a game for payment, rather than dopamine, you’d think you would want to optimize for quality and value, not cheap engagement. I’m not rolling in it, and sample size of one, but this post seems to be doing better at earning people’s sats than a lot of the other stuff that might be more likely to attract upvotes (i.e. a very bitcoin-friendly news headline that otherwise required zero “work”).
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The thing to consider is that this community is small and filled with deep enthusiasts... I think if we would have community with rest of the population, the average behavior would be different.
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