Maybe an ecosystem that supports a handful of well-resourced shared services is the solution that satisfices?

Some initial thoughts going in, for a piece I plan to write soon after: ucm.teleshuttle.com/2025/09/thou...

And FairPay encompasses value exchange of all kinds, in both directions—so can include non-monetary forms of value, such as “like & subscribe,” into its highly customizable “reverse metering.”

Yes, I often use the term “patron” as more appropriate than customer or consumer. It signifies potentially ongoing relationship, the key to #FairPay.

…and this older one explains why the fixed, pre-set pricing we take as a given is actually unnatural and an artifact of mass retail. www.fairpayzone.com/2014/12/so-l...

My latest post on FairPay notes that the expected rise of Personal AI agents (PAIs) promises to make FairPay far easier and intuitive to apply.
www.fairpayzone.com

Thanks @kissane.bsky.social for citing my post, & @bmann.ca for tagging me & the excellent #ProtocolsforPublishers.

My work explains why it is not subs or micropayments, but fixed prices that cannot be value based—and that digital enables a process for value-based relationship pricing.

Early days. A high level “feed mixer” and an ecosystem of “branded” curation services could make customizing feeds as simple and intuitive as a newsstand (as I describe in the linked blog post).

…and all 4 installments in the Delegation Series with @mchrisriley.com explore this nuance, reflexivity, and sociotechnical dynamics.
techpolicy.press/delegation-o...

That is temporary and being addressed by Free Our Feeds and related efforts to open and catalyze the ATmosphere to create filters and friction to limit such problems.

More at ucm.teleshuttle.com/2025/08/beyo.... And an early example is Blacksky: blog.rudyfraser.com/an-internet-...

We should be less doomerist (or defensive) on skew in initial Bsky communities, & use Bsky as leverage to build an open pluriverse that can offer whatever vibe you want. We have only short window to build that before openness to diverse communities of interest/values may become impossible.

As open ATproto ecosystem grows & better feed mixer services emerge, you will be able to compose feeds for whatever vibe you want any given time. This composable ecosystem will grow to be a “shmoo” (a cartoon creature that wants to be eaten & tastes like whatever you want it to).

Right! ...a start in that direction from 2012, now being picked up as "bridging systems."
ucm.teleshuttle.com/2012/10/filt...