Seem to be on the right track. So you have some issues with "curation" and I don't blame you. It makes, no sense. I covered some of that already here:

@nonameslefttouse/re-foreveraverage-sifl0q

And now I'll tell you something about "tipping" in the traditional sense.

For one, peakd has had it for years and it's rarely used, compared to votes. Votes are a better deal to the consumer. When tipping, the consumer on the outside must go through all those hoops first, in order to convert their money into crypto. So they're not going to want to do that constantly, every time they want to tip. They also won't charge their account up thousands of dollars and call that a "convenience," in order to prepared to tip often. Not happening. And all this money is just going straight through the system anyway. So it's not "adding value" without incentives to hold in place.

So the solution is tipping, with votes. They can charge that up gradually, as it grows on its own as well, when they tip. They charge it once with $100, can tip forever, and still have that money. Then they can add another $100. They spend this money anyway, but now it's not spent. And if they did go ahead and charge it up a few grand, they're not blowing through that money. It's growing.

And a lot people think, "Well wtf good is two cents as a tip?" But I'm looking at it in bulk. 1000 tipping for "free" and look, it's adding up. Plus you can come by tomorrow and do it all over again. Traditional tips, you're on limited supply. The result is consistent tips rather than sporadic. So again, this adds up.

And often people think, "Well geez. That's not fair that individual can tip $5 and I can only tip 5 cents." But you'd never hear that when someone decides to drop $100 on a stream, while others did $5, and the rest did nothing. That competition and jealously elements aren't in the code. That's just people being people. The culture messes with people. They walk in the door and immediately someone is telling them "you're just a minnow and you need to be afraid of those big whales over there." It's f'd up so I just ignore that stuff. Grown adults saying they're "little people" here, but they'd never do that in public, in life.

We have all these tools here to use, and we don't need to see them in the same way we've been looking at them since 2016. That's just the culture. People can go their own way, yet still be a part of something much larger than themselves.

Pardon the relaxed nature of this comment, I'm in a bit of a hurry. You asked me to come here. If you learned anything from what I said over there and in the included linked response. Run with it.