Social/chat services are messaging protocols where they might layer on money transfer. Sphinx is a money transfer protocol (lightning network) with social layered on.
Paying for media is just one type of value transfer that could happen on it, you can imagine many others.
AFAIK you can do stuff like:
- Require small payment to send a message (reduce spam), view an image, etc.
- Accept tips
- Streaming payment in one direction, streaming media the other direction
Video on Sphinx for podcasts:
hm for you I thought it was less interesting as a group chat & more interesting as a decentralized/uncensorable 1-on-1 messaging app with native payments. The native payments open up setting a subs pay-per-message & also responding w add'l paid/locked messages (incl images)