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Why won't it work?

One issue could be that the $ argument won't work with 99% of users b/c they don't generate enough traffic (i.e. who really cares about, say, $5/month of revenue).

One way to solve it could be to pool the revenue and to position Tsu like this: "90% of revenue goes to a good cause of your choice (climate, humanitarian, etc.), not to 1 huge corporation"

Edit: Every profile would then get a "I Donated $x today" badge (visible publicly) as a feel-good engine. You could then convert the amount to real things like "I paid 2 meals in a 3rd World country today" or "planted 3 trees", depending on your choice of the cause.

> One issue could be that the $ argument won't work with 99% of users b/c they don't generate enough traffic (i.e. who really cares about, say, $5/month of revenue).

Thats $60 a year? A nice discount on most gadgets. Am I wrong?

> A nice discount on most gadgets

Or 1 month of a life in a 3rd World country.

What's more important to us?

I think many would care about $5/month, it certainly is better than nothing, but there is no way that the average user will get even one tenth of that per month.

I don't care about $5 / month, but a lot of users would. But think about content creators (musicians, artists, athletes, etc.) even with a small fan base, they get rewarded few hundred dolla per month. If they stick to the concept, then the regular poor users will follow them.

How much do you value your privacy?

How about I generously offer you $1 per month? Feel insulted? it's exactly Tsū's plan.

(consider fb has 1.3b users and it's q2 earning 2.9b, $1 per month is indeed a generous offer)

joke aside, the fact is, when you talk revenue sharing to users, they/we always over-evaluate ourselves, and you can never match the expectation.

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