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Re: Tip Jar

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Post by sodality2 »

suyula wrote: post #42
Forbo wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's shit like this that makes me wish people would switch to Mastodon, but it won't happen because the "big names" aren't on there. Wil Wheaton tried, but got bombarded with an endless slew of "Shut the fuck up Wesley" until he quit. The cynic in me thinks this could have been a coordinated effort by Twitter to try to keep people from leaving for greener pastures, but that's probably just my tinfoil hat showing.

It's much more likely that Mastodon is just full of the sort of people who get kicked off all the centralised platforms.

Mastodon is that, but also the opposite. It literally depends entirely on which instance you choose. There are servers of all kinds, here are some listed on their site:

General (41) Regional (29) Art (7) Music (2) Journalism (1) Activism (7) LGBTQ+ (7) Gaming (5) Technology (15) Furry (3) Food (2)

Re: Tip Jar

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Post by sodality2 »

dangrossman wrote: post #51
seibelj wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You surely don’t think that actual dollars settle every time you pay with a credit card, Venmo, or PayPal? You realize that settlement takes weeks? Micro-paying with Bitcoin on a centralized platform like PayPal is essentially the same as dollars. Final settlement in BTC can come later when someone wants to withdraw their balance.

Credit card settlements happen next business day, not after weeks. Venmo and PayPal transactions settle instantly. You can spend the money immediately. PayPal also supports instant bank transfers, so you can transfer it out and withdraw it from an ATM as cash a minute later if you'd like.

They are referring to cash settlement, not spending ability, I believe ("You realize that settlement takes weeks?"). The difference is nearly unnoticeable to the end user, whether or not the actual cash is moved, because they can still spend it.

Re: Tip Jar

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Post by lvs »

anonytrary wrote: post #53

I remember in 2017 in /r/dogecoin, we would tip each other thousands of doge (back then, it was 1/10th of a penny) for "such many random and much wow comment in forum". This was achieved with a DOGE tipping bot. This idea will most likely work if Twitter starts supporting it as a first class feature. And maybe it will encourage people to speak about things that are valuable. Or maybe it will continue to encourage the…

Ridiculously, I think the aggregate of tiny tips that people forever lost to that tipbot would be worth serious money now. Never would have imagined.

Re: Tip Jar

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Post by rawtxapp »

anonytrary wrote: post #53

I remember in 2017 in /r/dogecoin, we would tip each other thousands of doge (back then, it was 1/10th of a penny) for "such many random and much wow comment in forum". This was achieved with a DOGE tipping bot. This idea will most likely work if Twitter starts supporting it as a first class feature. And maybe it will encourage people to speak about things that are valuable. Or maybe it will continue to encourage the…

On the other hand /r/cryptocurrency introduced "moons" as tipping mechanism and the quality of the discussions went downhill really quick. Nowadays, there's lots of sob stories or random posts about how a person just bought in to some random coin, personal anecdotes, etc.

I think whatever tipping is implemented needs to be pretty much worthless (aka mostly symbolic), otherwise, people will just spend a lot of their time just trying to game it. In many parts of the world, even making a couple dollars a day is more than they would make in their local economy.

Re: Tip Jar

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Post by davidblue »

Just want to point out:

As it is implemented currently, the “Tip Jar” is literally just a list of hyperlinks. Clean hyperlinks, even.

If you need a handy example for trying it out: I’m @NeoYokel

I entered every link except CashApp because I don’t have that.

(DO NOT PAY ME. This is not a sly attempt to get you extremely wealthy hn readers to send me unsolicited cash.)

Re: Tip Jar

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Post by davidblue »

davidblue wrote: post #65

Just want to point out: As it is implemented currently , the “Tip Jar” is literally just a list of hyperlinks. Clean hyperlinks, even. If you need a handy example for trying it out: I’m @NeoYokel I entered every link except CashApp because I don’t have that. (DO NOT PAY ME. This is not a sly attempt to get you extremely wealthy hn readers to send me unsolicited cash.)

CORRECTION: The Venmo link is not clean. Here’s the tracking meta (which is revealing lol): ‘ txn=pay&amount=1.00&note=Spaces ‘

Re: Tip Jar

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Post by 55555 »

Onlyfans strangely not mentioned. I see a lot of people on twitter with viral tweets shilling their onlyfans

Re: Tip Jar

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Post by radicalriddler »

rawtxapp wrote: post #64
anonytrary wrote: post #53

I remember in 2017 in /r/dogecoin, we would tip each other thousands of doge (back then, it was 1/10th of a penny) for "such many random and much wow comment in forum". This was achieved with a DOGE tipping bot. This idea will most likely work if Twitter starts supporting it as a first class feature. And maybe it will encourage people to speak about things that are valuable. Or maybe it will continue to encourage the…

On the other hand /r/cryptocurrency introduced "moons" as tipping mechanism and the quality of the discussions went downhill really quick. Nowadays, there's lots of sob stories or random posts about how a person just bought in to some random coin, personal anecdotes, etc. I think whatever tipping is implemented needs to be pretty much worthless (aka mostly symbolic), otherwise, people will just spend a lot of their t…

This is just how those forums end up during these massive market increases (or bubbles if you so feel inclined). I remember back in 2017/18 /r/cryptocurrency it was a lot of sob stories and anecdotes mixed in with a bunch of pump and dump shilling.

Re: Tip Jar

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Post by iudqnolq »

sneak wrote: post #8

> *Payment service availability and features vary by region Why do companies think they can compete with internet payment services that don't have any of these arbitrary restrictions placed upon them?

In part because the cloud is just someone else's computer, and someone else's computer runs somewhere and is thus subject to human civilization and laws.

Re: Tip Jar

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Post by runlevel1 »

ziml77 wrote: post #59
simonw wrote: post #4

Apparently if you send someone a tip with this they get your mailing address as part of the receipt. https://twitter.com/racheltobac/status/1390409874006183936 This is a PayPal issue, but Twitter are responding by adding a warning so people know it will happen: https://twitter.com/kayvz/status/1390423761183117312 ?

Yep PayPal is awful about this stuff. I have a friend who's deadname was leaking through PayPal reciepts. They couldn't change it because PayPal insisted on showing the name of the account holder which was validated through the bank account linking. To protect them I now manage the account they have people send payments and donations to. It's suboptimal but it's the only way we can be totally sure their deadname does…

Could it not be fixed by updating the bank account name?
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