Re:Why micropayments will never be a thing in journalism
by ryandvm on Friday June 19, 2020 @09:12AM
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I think a Brave-style approach is better than an advertising-supported model just because Internet advertising is a scam for everyone involved. Unfortunately Brave doesn't solve the underlying problem of "views = $$$", which means journalism would have to continue to rely on being clickbait to survive.
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Re:Why micropayments will never be a thing in journalism
by mukuz on Friday June 19, 2020 @09:57AM
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It does make an effort to solve the problem. It currently uses a time based approach in which tokens are credited to a publisher based on time spent by the user reading the article.
Also there is a threshold of some seconds before any tokens are accounted for an article. So basically click baits won’t account for any tokens because the user might quickly close the article.