Is this a good idea?
Greetings friends!
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Today I tried a new web3 social media platform blurt. It's a hardfork of Steem blockchain. It's interface was simple but the most interesting thing is its fee manual. There is no downvotes. But upvoting is also not an easy task. It requires payment of fee in form of blurt tokens for upvoting, following, posting and commenting.
I can understand that payment of fee for posting and commenting will reduce spam but why it requires to pay for following and upvoting? This is very confusing. Why would anybody upvote if he have to pay fee?
I don't know about their ways. So, it may be a good thing but so far it seems negative for that blockchain. What do you think?
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That must be why there's suppose to be less of a political bias on the platform, or so I've heard. I haven't signed up on the site though many have tried to encourage me to do so. As long as you are willing to pay to have your stuff posted, they'll evidently take the money over what's being written politically. Never heard of anyone charging to allow one to follow someone one. A bit odd and different.
Yes, this is very odd. If you have to pay for vote, comment, follow then such a web3 social media app won't survive a long.