The first platform to figure out a way to skip over all of this and just charge people $5 (payable in XMR) to make an account will do great. No subscription, just a single flat fee. Layer it over the original system and advertise it as a permanent guarantee against shadowbanning and any kind of deboosting. Elon could probably juice Twitter's earnings by a very significant margin by going the 2000's MMO route and having one-off "Twitter Basic" passes sold in pharmacies and WalMarts nationwide, which give you the anti-shadowban benefits of being a verified user without any of the extra stuff.

The "anti-botting" measures are all solved within a week by people whose full time job it is to circumvent them, so the only thing they do is constrain legitimate users who aren't willing to link their IDs (which is often the intent, but ensures that only boomers and idiots with nothing to say end up joining).

The first platform to figure out a way to skip over all of this and just charge people $5 (payable in XMR) to make an account will do great. No subscription, just a single flat fee. Layer it over the original system and advertise it as a permanent guarantee against shadowbanning and any kind of deboosting.

The "anti-botting" measures are all solved within a week by people whose full time job it is to circumvent them, so the only thing they do is constrain legitimate users who aren't willing to link their IDs (which is often the intent, but ensures that only boomers and idiots with nothing to say end up joining).