> But, also, there probably are ways for the blockchain to help with some quality-of-life improvements for various online communities. At the very least, it could help make online communities more self-sustainable.

I buy crypto art several days a week.

I typically spend 1 or 2 tez (so $5 or $10) for a "digital print" that offers 10 or 25 editions and a significant number of the artists that I collect from are in Indonesia, Brazil, etc.

I'm a collector and a fan and I am enjoying this so much more than Patreon and I imagine the creators are too. It's obviously so much better than giving your work away to Instagram and Twitter for likes or engagement or whatever and then struggling to make money from it by asking for tips or patreon or physical merch that nobody really wants.

I think about it like I do my indie vinyl records, art prints, and things like that.

I like supporting artists and I like collecting and I really like collecting digital things that are not locked into one person's platform. In fact, the platform I've been using since May (hicetnunc.xyz) disappeared last month when the main developer left and it only took hours for everyone to regroup. As the backend is all on-chain data and the frontend was open source, we hardly missed a beat.