The answer is: 

Tipping is overdone and annoying. 

I don’t give a friend $1 when they say something I like. Or If I want to repeat what they said to my friends.

Tipping was a great ‘24 fad, we tried it, we had fun, and it’s time to move on. 

… Unless one of the founders of the several tipping products can prove to me that tipping is really important. I’m open to discussion.

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Tipping is one form factor of micro payments. It just opens the door to other micro transaction use cases 

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I can agree that tipping doesn’t solve a problem but just creates a new form factor for passive support and incentives emgagement

But sometimes it takes stupid dumb uses cases for a new primitive to land and that opens up people’s closed mental doors to the point that new use cases *emerge*

@atown @div microtransactions make a lot of sense to me, and I see how tipping gets us to more use cases for microtransactions.

Like @superfluid money streaming makes a lot of sense to me. 

Tipping, to me, doesn’t really solve a problem. I can send people money on Venmo. I can send them via the pay button on FC. I can send them some $DICKBUTT on @rainbow if they’re a hooligan.

hopped in the comments to say this lol 

but yes, tipping is just one of many microtransactions noice will enable

even tipping on its own has been a powerful token distribution flywheel, i’ve sent out over $1,000 worth of $noice on farcaster this past month with tips

and i don't mind sending even a cent of it because it all went to people i’d want in the noice community. it's a great way to spread your belief - in a project, a meme, or a community