On SN, every reply is manual. You choose to post it. But if you’ve got enough sats in your wallet, the paying part feels basically automatic. You don’t “think twice” about the fee each time because it’s within the budget you already set.
That’s the same distinction I’m making for Lightning subscriptions: manual intent, automated execution.
You pre-commit once: “Pay X sats monthly to this merchant only, up to a cap. Stop if the amount changes. I can revoke anytime.” Then the wallet pushes it on schedule only inside those constraints.
So it’s not fiat-style merchant-pull or “compulsory spending.” It’s wallet-push that feels automatic because you funded it and capped it, like SN posting feels frictionless once your wallet has sats.
On SN, every reply is manual. You choose to post it. But if you’ve got enough sats in your wallet, the paying part feels basically automatic. You don’t “think twice” about the fee each time because it’s within the budget you already set.
That’s the same distinction I’m making for Lightning subscriptions:
manual intent, automated execution.
You pre-commit once: “Pay X sats monthly to this merchant only, up to a cap. Stop if the amount changes. I can revoke anytime.” Then the wallet pushes it on schedule only inside those constraints.
So it’s not fiat-style merchant-pull or “compulsory spending.” It’s wallet-push that feels automatic because you funded it and capped it, like SN posting feels frictionless once your wallet has sats.