What if we had a relay where new people could manually submit content to and pay a "curation fee", then some smart humans would pocket the fee and manually vet each submission and only allow in those ...
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We could rename it to /spotlight and use that immediately at the community level for membership vetting & broader discovery since there is more than 1 PoW capable client now. Then maybe we could move into something similar to what you built with the credit system on feedback.relays.land but instead, non-members would buy credits & members would earn credits, then its up to the operator to cash those out accordingly? Or maybe we use some combination of both payment & PoW eventually?
From there, I would think clients would want to showcase good feeds since it makes them look good and communities that want to become popular & profitable would want to advertise themselves to/through said clients.
We could rename it to /spotlight and use that immediately at the community level for membership vetting & broader discovery since there is more than 1 PoW capable client now. Then maybe we could move into something similar to what you built with the credit system on feedback.relays.land but instead, non-members would buy credits & members would earn credits, then its up to the operator to cash those out accordingly? Or maybe we use some combination of both payment & PoW eventually?
From there, I would think clients would want to showcase good feeds since it makes them look good and communities that want to become popular & profitable would want to advertise themselves to/through said clients.