Another similar story from a couple weeks ago: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternative-post-news-shutdown

I feel like tipping is different from Value for Value economies. Tipping is fun but I don’t think we should construct a social space where money is the signal of value. It will just reinforce class dynamics.

Value for Value is working in certain spaces. Like I follow some artists that release all their albums for “pay what you want” on bandcamp, and a lot of creators on Nostr are excited about V4V but I’m not sure any of them are making dependable or “profitable” businesses around it. I’d love to see examples to the contrary?

To me the much more exciting possibility of micropayments in social spaces is pooling resources to achieve collective goals. This is something that churches, clubs, recovery groups, and other communities have learned to do really well in physical spaces, but it hasn’t taken off in online communities.