Sure but wait.
Not by using Get request.
It’s been mentioned before but, if doable, rewarding app developer on PUT request is much more promising.
- It incentives app developer to create valuable feature for the user.
- It aligns the interest of the holy trinity of Safe in the same direction. Users get new valuable feature, App developers get rewarded for creating them and farmers get new valuable data to store. It’s win-win-win.
- User’s get to make the jugemental call about what is valuable and what is not because they have to put their money where their mouth is.
- Since users pay for PUT, it can’t be gamed.
This covers the goal of the app developer reward, having great app for the network and giving the open source community a new income stream.
What about the artists?
It’s obviously a very popular feature and it’s easy to understand why but wait, I think a reality check is in order.
The amount of money you will generate with your blog post, mildly popular song, book, essay, comic strip will be abysmal. The amount of data that these represent compare to all warez, porn and movies that will find their way into Safe will be so infinitely small that there is no way this will change anything in a significant way to your current state of living.
And IF you manage to create something that is so massively popular as to get your fair share, you are in a position where other business model would work as well if not better.
People who create value have already mutliple ways of getting value out of it, even more so on Safe.
Instead of thinking that we fixed the producer problem by rewarding uploaders with the Get reward, I think it would be much much more productive to develop platform that will help them get real money like: Shop plugins, crowdfunding, patreonage, subscriptions, ad network, gift, etc.
[EDIT: Discussion continues: Proposal: App Rewards by “Pay per PUT”]