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Tokens and prices
How you earn tokens, what a post costs, and why the price changes.
Posting costs tokens, and you earn tokens by reviewing other people’s posts. That way, reading counts as much as writing, and everyone has the same chance to be heard.
Earning tokens
| What you do | Tokens |
|---|---|
| Create an account | +10, once |
| Forward a post | +1 |
| Drop a post | +1 |
| Answer an attention check | +1 |
| Someone gifts you a token on one of your posts | +1 |
| Publish a post | minus the current price |
Tokens can’t be bought, and they can’t be sent to someone directly. The only way to give one away is to gift it while forwarding that person’s post.
What a post costs
The price isn’t fixed. It rises when a lot of people are posting at the same time and falls when it’s quiet. That way nobody can flood the feed, and posting stays cheap when there’s room. Across Peerkola, a post currently costs between 1 and 30 tokens.
Each channel and language has its own price. Busy ones cost a bit more than quiet ones, at most half again as much as the general price, and at least half of it. That’s why the channel list can show a range, such as 2–6: the exact price depends on which language you post in.
Seeing the price
- In the composer, a pill shows the price for the channel and language you’ve chosen and how it compares to your balance.
- The quoted price stays fixed for a short while; the pill counts down. Publish within that time and you pay exactly what you were shown.
- Under Filters → Channels you can switch on Channel costs to see each channel’s price range.
Not enough tokens
If your balance is too low, the composer tells you how many you still need. Review a few posts in your feed to earn them.
Posting nothing for a while is fine too. Tokens don’t expire.
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