ASasim·Sep 22, 2025
I don't think they actually know what the future business model is. No one really knows. What people are presenting is iterative models. That's fine but the model will be quite different. Ok we'll need subscriptions and to pay creators but I believe if everything is crypto and stablecoin based it's all going to be pay per view or pay per query because you know a lot of people just want that specific content from a specific source because of reputation or because that's what they like. I'm not paying for 5 different agents for that bespoke experience just like I'm not paying for NYT, WSJ and multiple other publications because it is insanity to price up what should effectively be pay per article. So maybe on the backend creators get a royalty kick back just like the music industry but on the consumer side I definitely think beyond subscrip
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tions with the advent of crypto wallets we're going towards micro transactions for everything.
Ok the the toxic nature of the internet and social media in general and what has become of our digital age, totally agree that it's rage and click bait. I wrote something to that effect here https://github.com/micro/mu/issues/27. But I personally don't think we're going to directly interact with agents the whole time. They will exist, they will be somewhere in the middle layers, there might even be a chat interface that replaces search queries with answers but I think the whole web as a whole and social media needs a rethink. Ads as a business model has to die, even though clearly it won't and we need to shift our attention elsewhere.