paid premium usernames is decentralized social's best business model

then use that revenue to subsidize network operation costs for an approximately sybil resistant free tier

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for approximately sybil resistant free tier example: every (nonprogrammatic) US/EU phone number gets yearly free account storage of Y. If the algorithm considers their content is non spammy/valuable, this gets increased to Z

just for premium ones, free users can claim free usernames > N characters with looser sybil constraints

Yep

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EUeaqzipu7Nl0pT1rvFLfB_a_N0-QSvvEiYBtxbPMSg/edit

that sounds like what Telegram have done with TON