YouTube, Facebook, TikTok already do convert things like hearts into money. The terms by which they do are very arbitrary and seemingly opaque to me, an outsider of that. One undeniable benefit of web3 would be the possibly for immutable and transparent rules for compensation (whether those would be enacted for any given platform is unclear).
So basically the dream is decentralized "Buy me a coffee" buttons? I can self-host a WordPress site, install WooCommerce on it, and people can "heart" it using BitCoin, Stripe, or a variety of platforms. What's the advantage of web3 over that? (just trying to understand)