I totally love the magic part of it. but it's the aspect of "paying friends for their comments" part that feels weird. I'm in a handful of signal friend group chats and if the "laughing emoji" responses were replaced with micropayments I feel like it would get weird fast and we'd keep odd little balance sheets in our heads with eachother.

but maybe the problem is I'm erroneously imagining I'd use a zap for "good comment!" where actually I'd be using it for "you just provided real value to me", which admittedly happens way less in friend group chats and I guess wouldn't feel any different than paying a friend for gas + wear and tear on a shared road trip or something.