you were firmly against using SP to support things and suggested people use tips instead

Source?

I said the opposite for as long as I can remember. I only every replied that to people who considered my downvotes as theft and to individual like OCDB using votes as payment method, they were paying their curators with upvotes on summary posts.

In hindsight it might actually be better if the audience of No Agenda never get exposed to Hive content platform. They have the largest federated mastodon community and are focusing on lighting network for boosts and tipping. @freedom and @blocktrade stake have spoken and I respect the outcome.