Great work! I like your idea for incorporating advertising. Re-articulating ads as a "sponsor" and only in one place seems like a really big improvement over all the sneaking attention-gaming other platforms do, and probably better for the advertiser too. Still gotta watch out for the perverse incentives, once you're bought you're bought, but it's a cool approach.
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Yeah, I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Ultimately, I think that we'd be shooting ourselves in the foot if we never embraced advertising, we just need to do it on our terms. It's hard enough to compete with the incumbents, and cutting off a huge potential revenue source will not help us win any faster.
As long as we stick to ethical companies, respecting user privacy, and not sacrificing UX, I think this model can go a long way.
I have no problem with ads as long as they don't spy and track you. But because they do, I block them vigorously.
For what it's worth I hate ads. They slow down my experience, they get in a way, they steal areas that could have content, they trick you into something stupid. At the same time I understand that that has been the only model for a long while, but my hope is we can change that with Bitcoin...
I think clients should block ads by default and give you settings like: "only show ads that pay me >=1000 sats"
