@Suzyanalyst1 @stephenjudkins I think common explanations for micropayments never happening are payment overhead (just making a credit card charge often cost ~$0.35, and then a percentage of the charge is taken, so payment of even $1 yields only like 62¢) and "cognitive overhead", the theory that it would be exhausting to people to have to constantly think about whether to pay a nickel more as they follow links around the web. 1/

@Suzyanalyst1 @stephenjudkins https://post.news/ is trying to overcome the payment overhead by having a within-site currency of "points", with no cost other than revising their internal database for internal transfers. It's like casino chips, you make payments in those, and can cash out for real money at the end. 2/

@Suzyanalyst1 @stephenjudkins This could be an interesting micropayments experiment, but it requires basically that the whole ecosystem belong to the entity that manages the "points", ie it requires a Twitter-style monolithic host for all the articles, and I'm basically too burnt out on that part to get very excited about the micropayments experiment. /fin