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They have made an honest attempt to pay writers. It's a different model than substack, but that's why.

I look at it the same way I look at pay walls for newspapers. I don't like them but I understand why they are there.

Which is why it failed though. It turns out people won't pay one dollar to read an article like "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

The situation is very unfortunate. We had perhaps once-in-a-lifetime chance to solve micropayment but we fucked up (crypto).

yup, I still wonder if BAT was onto something. loved the idea, never took off. oh well