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information is duplicated not consumed
there's no 'market price' to depress or inflate
prices are a market coordination mechanism
philanthropy is a resource allocation decision
It's a form of tipping, which has had price discovery through community norms. I'm curious about how those norms are developing in this space.
If you don't like calling it price discovery, I won't make you.
Rational incentive for tipping includes signaling to the producer "I like this" and "Keep making this". Things that more people like will on average get tipped more. So there is some information content to the tip amounts, akin to price discovery
Some podcasts, Local Bitcoiners comes to mind, have various rewards for their supporters. That's a much more tangible kind of price discovery, basically an all-pay auction.
People are choosing to pay for it still and they're doing some sort of calculation to come up with an amount.