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Post by tom_mellior »

captn3m0 wrote: post #71

Twitter seems to be ignoring the development of its website entirely. This is not the first feature that’s been exclusive to just the mobile apps: - Fleets, launched months ago, is still app-only - Spaces, the Clubhouse clone, is also app-only. - Now Tipping. - Even the uncropped images that launched yesterday (for vertical images) is app-only.

Anyone using Twitter in the browser uses the Twitter website and sees the ads it serves. But many people using Twitter in an app use a third party app rather than the official one. These people don't see ads. If Twitter's goal is to get more ad views, exanding their share of the app market is more important than the web market that they control already.

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Post by toomuchtodo »

dstaley wrote: post #76
toomuchtodo wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would like to see some Zelle integration, as almost all major banks in the US already integrate with it. No need for crypto or closed wallets (PayPal and Cash app), just tie into existing instant payment infra. https://www.zellepay.com/get-started

This feature is built upon user-specific URLs, and Zelle unfortunately doesn't have a public URL system. In fact, you can only access the Zelle network within the site/app for your bank.

Thanks, I will get this feedback to a Zelle PM.

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Post by sneak »

lazyasciiart wrote: post #102
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?

Do any such services exist?

Bitcoin and Ethereum are the two largest.

Re: Tip Jar

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Post by sneak »

iudqnolq wrote: post #69
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.

The cloud and p2p networks are different things.

Bittorrent (in its traditional use case of piracy) is still as illegal as ever and still going strong. So are cocaine sales, as is Uniswap's giant permissionless unregulated/unregistered securities market.

I think perhaps people overestimate the ability to effectively regulate.

Re: Tip Jar

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Post by viraptor »

globular-toast wrote: post #99
viraptor wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me clarify - I meant a class of issues usually described that way, but spelled out it's "members of the team have little direct or indirect contact with people impacted by higher privacy needs, who are quite often global or context-specific minorities or people commonly exposed to abuse that impacts them". I wish we had a unique name for it because it keeps repeating online, and is often shortened the way I comme…

Literally everyone I've ever spoken to about privacy has been a man. What the hell are you talking about?

People seek privacy in different ways and for different reasons. One end of the spectrum is the privacy for everyone as an ideology. Somewhere else is for example immediate protection from an abusive (ex-)partner embedding spying software on your phone. If you haven't heard groups caring about the second case, maybe it's due to your usual contacts?

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Post by trompetenaccoun »

CryptoPunk wrote: post #136
rawtxapp wrote: post #64

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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…

Quality on /r/cryptocurtency was always very poor. Moons improved the quality, if anything, excepting the rise in sob stories you mention. Moons also allowed a lot of people to get paid for their Reddit activity. For people living in the developing world, this has in some cases been a life-changing sum.

Nope, quality went down a lot with even more unfunny memes and reposts than previously thinkable.

Moons made it worse, just like donuts ruined ethtrader (and even lead to most of the users leaving starting their own sub). Of course that won't stop reddit to roll crypto tokens out side wide.

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Post by fnord77 »

weezin wrote: post #117
fnord77 wrote: post #50

> Tip Jar is an easy way to support the incredible voices that make up the conversation on Twitter. The conversation is mostly snarkiness and trolling. I really hope we don't start rewarding that with cash.

"What do you do for a living?" I dunk on people for tips on twitter.

Hi Jeff Tisch

Re: Tip Jar

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Post by CryptoPunk »

trompetenaccoun wrote: post #146
CryptoPunk wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quality on /r/cryptocurtency was always very poor. Moons improved the quality, if anything, excepting the rise in sob stories you mention. Moons also allowed a lot of people to get paid for their Reddit activity. For people living in the developing world, this has in some cases been a life-changing sum.

Nope, quality went down a lot with even more unfunny memes and reposts than previously thinkable. Moons made it worse, just like donuts ruined ethtrader (and even lead to most of the users leaving starting their own sub). Of course that won't stop reddit to roll crypto tokens out side wide.

/r/CryptoCurrency has never been more active, and while much of that could certainly be attributed to the recent price gains, going from 500 comments a day in Jan 2020 to 40,000 comments a day today is more than can be explained by just the price.

So objectively speaking, CryptoCurrency is more appealing/engaging now than ever before. The only question is how much of that can be attributed to Moons. As for /r/EthTrader, the split happened before donuts were even launched, and that was due to a smear campaign that was run against them by a few influential users.

EthTrader saw rapid growth in subscribers after donut introduction, and is today one of highest subscriber crypto forums.

So I do think Reddit rolling out Ethereum-based ERC20 tokens site wide makes sense from an engagement perspective, and will also go a long way in enabling more decentralized and distributed ownership structures, that allow for more effective economic coordination. If Reddit successfully executes on the plan, it will also mean hundreds of millions of people having a new source of income.

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